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From Publishers Weekly
King, we learn in an author\'s note, hashed out the plot of this gripper while driving from western Pennsylvania to New York. The first draft took two months to write. That\'s quick work, and it\'s reflected in the book\'s simplicity of plot and theme; unlike King\'s chewy last novel, Dreamcatcher, this one goes down like a shot of moonshine, hot and clean, much like Cujo, say, or Gerald\'s Game.
In 1979, an odd man drives what at first glance looks like a 1954 mint-quality Buick Roadmaster up to a service station in rural Pennsylvania, then vanishes, leaving behind the car. The state police of Troop D deposit the vehicle in a shed near their barracks, where, up to the present, it remains a secret from all but cop colleagues for the car isn\'t exactly a car; it may be alive, and it certainly serves as a doorway between our world and... what? Another dimension? Another galaxy? The troopers never find out, despite their amateurish scientific investigations of it and of the weird beings that occasionally emerge from the vehicle\'s trunk: freaky fish, creepy flowers and more. Moreover, the \"car\" is dangerous: the day it appears, a state trooper disappears, and experiments over the years with cockroaches, etc., indicate that just as the car can spew things out, it will ingest them.
King, we learn in an author\'s note, hashed out the plot of this gripper while driving from western Pennsylvania to New York. The first draft took two months to write. That\'s quick work, and it\'s reflected in the book\'s simplicity of plot and theme; unlike King\'s chewy last novel, Dreamcatcher, this one goes down like a shot of moonshine, hot and clean, much like Cujo, say, or Gerald\'s Game.
In 1979, an odd man drives what at first glance looks like a 1954 mint-quality Buick Roadmaster up to a service station in rural Pennsylvania, then vanishes, leaving behind the car. The state police of Troop D deposit the vehicle in a shed near their barracks, where, up to the present, it remains a secret from all but cop colleagues for the car isn\'t exactly a car; it may be alive, and it certainly serves as a doorway between our world and... what? Another dimension? Another galaxy? The troopers never find out, despite their amateurish scientific investigations of it and of the weird beings that occasionally emerge from the vehicle\'s trunk: freaky fish, creepy flowers and more. Moreover, the \"car\" is dangerous: the day it appears, a state trooper disappears, and experiments over the years with cockroaches, etc., indicate that just as the car can spew things out, it will ingest them.
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