After pulling out all the stops for his 1986 monster of a novel, IT, Stephen King went in the opposite direction for his next book. While IT is epic, sprawling and supernatural, Misery is small, claustrophobic and strictly human.Misery tells the now familiar tale of romance novelist Paul Sheldon's winter of discontent (to put it mildly), at the hands of his "number one fan" -- a crazed nurse named Annie Wilkes who rescues him from a car wreck in a freezing storm, brings him home, nurses him bac...
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