****SPOILER ALERT FOR THINNER ***** Have you read this book? What did you think? Would you recommend it? Please discuss and enjoy.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Published by New American Library on November 19, 1984 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Thinner, the old Gypsy man with the rotting nose whispered, and caressed his cheek, like a lover… Billy Halleck, good husband, loving father, lives in Connecticut and practices law in New York City. He is both beneficiary and victim of the American Good Life: he has an expensive home, a nice family, and a rewarding job…but he is also fifty pounds overweight, and, as his doctor keeps reminding him, he is thirty-six years old-edging into heart attack country. Then Billy Halleck sideswipes an old Gypsy woman as she is crossing the street in their quiet little southern Connecticut town of Fairview, and everything in his pleasant, upwardly mobile life changes. He is exonerated in the local court by a friendly judge and sheriff…but a blacker, far worse judgment has been passed on him, nevertheless. Billy Halleck begins losing weight. He is pleased at first, then worried, and finally terrified. He cant stop it. He eats and eats but the weight flies off. Beginning in suburban Connecticut and climaxing in rural Maine, THINNER is a novel of one mans quest to find the source of his nightmare and to reverse it before he becomes…nothing at all. Fun Facts: --The initial hardcover release of Thinner included a fake jacket photo of Bachman. The photo is claimed to have been taken by Claudia Inez Bachman. The actual subject of the photo is Richard Manuel, the insurance agent of Kirby McCauley, who was Kings literary agent. --The novel was adapted for the screenplay of a 1996 film of the same title. --------------------------------------------------dedication: To my wife, Claudia Inez Bachman Cover design: One Plus One Studio
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