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CARRIE by Stephen King (Doubleday, 1974) Full-size book club edition, later printing (gutter code MP1EE). Very good condition hardcover in very good jacket. Shows minor shelf wear with some rubbing/minuscule tears to jacket edges, scratches/creases/faint marks andsoftly bumped corners. Near perfect text block - albeit some light foxing- and inner pages. Binding super tight but has very slight \"lean\" and the jacket sits slightly forward onto the front of the boards due to this, (this is barely note-worth and I\'m only disclosing for full condition transparency).Book appears seldom if ever read. Carefully stored and nicely preserved. Jacket cover art retains vivid saturation. Please view all the photos for more condition details.This is a super clean reading copy of King\'s first novel, which almost never came to be- if it weren\'t for Tabitha King saving the first draft from the trash bin.
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“Carrie was the odd one at school; the one whose reflexes were always off in games, whose clothes never really fit, who never got the point of a joke. And so she became the joke, the brunt of teenaged cruelties that puzzled her as much as they wounded her.
There was hardly any comfort in playing her private game, because like so many things in Carrie\'s life, it was sinful. Or so her mother said. Carrie could make things move-by concentrating on them, by willing them to move. Small things, like marbles, would start dancing. Or a candle would fall. A door would lock. This was her game - her power - her sin, firmly repressed like everything else about Carrie.
One act of kindness, as spontaneous as the vicious jokes of her classmates, offered Carrie a new look atthat night of the senior prom. But another - of furious cruelty - forever changed things and turned her clan destine game into a weapon of horror and destruction.
She made a lighted candle fall, and she locked the doors...”
