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Desperation is a horror novel by American author Stephen King. It was published in 1996 at the same time as its "mirror" novel, The Regulators, itself published under King's Richard Bachman pseudonym. It was also made into a TV film starring Ron Perlman, Tom Skerritt and Steven Weber in 2006. The two novels represent parallel universes relative ...
The Regulators is a novel by American author Stephen King, writing under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.It was published in 1996 at the same time as its "mirror" novel, Desperation.
This connection, though purely speculative, would make sense as both seem to work as gateways through which malign forces of some sort manifest in the world. Also it would be far from the first time King used word-play in Dark Tower related books. --Peter K. 04:25, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
Stephen King is an American author of contemporary horror, thriller, science fiction, and fantasy. His books have sold more than 400 million copies, [1] [needs update] and many of them have been adapted into feature films, television movies, and comic books.
Megan Nolan (born 1990) [1] is an Irish journalist, and author from County Waterford.Her debut novel, Acts of Desperation, [2] was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize [3] and was one of the four awardees of the 2022 Betty Trask Award for debut novels.
The title, Desperate Characters, comes from a sentence in Henry David Thoreau’s Walden: “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” In the novel, Charlie and Sophie discuss Charlie's "desperation," and Otto tells Sophie that he and Charlie had recently argued over the Thoreau quote.
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Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...