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A Gerald Burlingame, tras veinte años de matrimonio con Jessie, le apetece probar nuevas sensaciones, experimentar con juegos eróticos que su mujer acepta no sin reticencias. En uno de esos juegos llevado al límite, Gerald muere sobre su esposa, que yace desnuda y esposada a la cabecera de la cama en una solitaria cabaña lejos de cualquier presencia humana... Este es el poderosísimo punto de arranque de esta novela de Stephen King, que la crítica saludó como la confirmación definitiva de su inmenso talento de narrador, siempre al servicio del lado oscuro y tenebroso de la existencia. Un incesto lejano, un perro y su dueño, la tortura de la sed y el hambre, los fantasmas, en fin, de toda una vida vendrán a visitar a Jessie Burlingame en su lecho de horror y angustia, hasta construir un relato claustrofóbico y obsesivo, realmente terrorífico e implacable. Narración extraordinaria del terror interior, el que nace del centro mismo de nuestra humanidad, las sorpresas y las revelaciones acompañan al lector con el vigor de la fuerza que solo King es capaz de proporcionar.
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Horror tales, Fiction, Horror, Horror fiction, American fiction, married people, sexual behavior, women, fear, Adult child sexual abuse victims, incest, Sadomasochism, terror, Translations into German, Large type books, Fiction, horror, New York Times reviewed, Mental illness, FICTION / Horror, FICTION / Literary, Castle Rock (Me. : Imaginary place), Sexualité dans le mariage, Romans, nouvelles, Peur, Castle Rock (Maine : Imaginary place), Burlingame, jessie (fictitious character), fiction, Maine, fiction, Mystery & Detective - General, Fiction - Mystery/ DetectivePeople
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Jessie: roman
1995-05, France Loisirs
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Gerald and Jessie Burlingame have gone to their summer home on a warm weekday in October for a romantic interlude. After being handcuffed to her bedposts, Jessie tires of her husband's games, but when Gerald refuses to stop she lashes out at him with deadly consequences. Still handcuffed, she is trapped and alone. Painful memories from her childhood bedevil her. Her only company is a hungry stray dog and the sundry voices that populate her mind. As night comes, she is unsure whether it is her imagination or if she has another companion: someone watching her from the corner of her dark bedroom.
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