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From A Buick 8 (Audio Cassette) (Unabridged)
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From A Buick 8 (Audio Cassette) (Unabridged)
Author: Stephen King, Bruce Davison (Narrator), James Rebhorn (Narrator), Betty Ann Baker (Narrator)
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Publisher: Audioworks
Book Type: Audio Cassette
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ISBN-13: 9780743520959 - ISBN-10: 0743520955
Publication Date: 9/24/2002


Other Versions of this Book: Hardcover, Hardcover, Paperback, Audio CD (Unabridged)

Book Description:
The state police of Troop D in rural Pennsylvania have kept a secret in Shed B out back of the barracks ever since 1979, when Troopers Ennis Rafferty and Curtis Wilcox answered a call from a gas station just down the road and came back with an abandoned Buick Roadmaster. Curt Wilcox knew old cars, and he knew immediately that this one was...wrong, just wrong. A few hours later, when Rafferty vanished, Wilcox and his fellow troopers knew the car was worse than dangerous.

Curt's avid curiosity took the lead, and they investigated as best they could, as much as they dared. Over the years, the troop absorbed the mystery as part of the background to their work, the Buick 8 sitting out there like a still-life painting that breathes-- inhaling a little bit of this world, exhaling a little bit of what world it came from.

In the fall of 2001, a few months after Curt Wilcox is killed in a gruesome auto accident, his eightee-year-old boy, Ned, starts coming by the barracks. Sandy Dearborn, Sergeant Commanding, knows it's the boy's way of holding onto his father, and Ned is allowed to become part of the Troop D family. One day he looks in the window of Shed B and discovers family secret. Like his father, Ned wants answers...

Read by Bruce Davison, James Rebhorn and Betty Ann Baker, Unabridged, 10 cassettes, 13 hours

From a Buick 8 is an audiobook about our fascination with deadly things, about our insistence on answers when there are none, about terror and courage in the face of the unknowable.

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Lindsey B. (Lindsb) - PA wrote on 5/8/2007...

2 member(s) found this review helpful.

This is an audiobook about out fascination with deadly things, about our insistence on answers when there are none, about terror and courage in the face of the unknowable.

Patti A. (PattiA) - Elkton, MD wrote on 12/24/2006...

2 member(s) found this review helpful.

This subdued, vaguely creepy tale is about an extraordinary force that infiltrates the lives of the people who work at a police barracks in rural Pennsylvania. While some readers may find this tale less exciting than the horror master's earlier works, From a Buick 8 is a wonderful example of how much King's plotting skills and literary finesse have matured over his long career. And, most of all, it's a darn creepy book

Kieron T. (zanthia6) wrote on 8/5/2006...

2 member(s) found this review helpful.

A great story about the secret the state police of Troop D, the Buick 8 in shed B. The Buick 8 is more than just an old car and proves to be dangerous when a trooper disappears shortly after it is first brought to the station in 1979. Trooper Curt Wilcox sought answers about the Buick and, after his death, so does his eighteen-year-old son.
The story is well-read by several voice actors, who bring it to life.


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Lori H. wrote on 10/25/2006...


I haven't read alot of Kings books. It seems I NEED this book explained to me. The story is easy to follow but the point...?


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