The Stand
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The Stand

by Stephen King

Publisher
Hodder
Pages
1325
Language
English
Published
2011

Overview

<p><b>'THE STAND is a masterpiece' (<i>Guardian</i>)</b><br> <b><br> Stephen King's apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by virus and tangled in an elemental struggle between good and evil remains as riveting and eerily plausible as when it was first published.</b><br> <br> First came the virus. And then came the dreams . . .<br> <br> A man escapes from a biological testing facility, unknowingly carrying a deadly weapon: a mutated strain of super-flu that will wipe out over 99 percent of the world's population within a few weeks.<br> <br> Those who remain are scared, bewildered, and in need of a leader. Two emerge - Mother Abagail, the benevolent 108-year-old woman who urges them to build a peaceful community in Boulder, Colorado; and Randall Flagg, the 'dark man', the apostate of death, the warlord of the charnel house and Prince of Evil.<br> <br> Now the survivors must choose between them - and ultimately decide the fate of all humanity.<br> <br> <b>'A masterpiece' GUARDIAN</b><br> <b>'His work plumbs, with unnerving accuracy, the hopes</b> <b>and fears of an entire nation' OBSERVER</b></p>

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