Misery
By Stephen King
(Signet, Mass Market Paperback, 9780451169525, 352pp.)
Publication Date: June 3, 1988
Categories: Horror - General
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After an automobile accident, novelist Paul Sheldon meets his biggest fan. Annie Wilkes is his nurse-and captor. Now, she wants Paul to write his greatest work-just for her. She has a lot of ways to spur him on. One is a needle. Another is an ax. And if they don't work, she can get really nasty...
Stephen King, the world's bestselling novelist, was educated at the University of Maine at Orono. He lives with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, and their children in Bangor, Maine.
"Classic King...full of twists and turns and mounting suspense." Boston Globe
"King's best...genuinely scary." USA Today
"May be his greatest triumph." New Haven Register












