An outcast at school and oppressed at home, Carrie White struggles to find her place in a world that constantly rejects her. When her hidden telekinetic powers are unleashed after a cruel act of humiliation, the consequences become catastrophic. In Stephen King’s Carrie, adolescence and isolation turn deadly—exploring bullying, repression, and the destructive force of unchecked rage.
Date: 1974 (United States)
Length: ~199 pages (varies by edition)
Cultural impact: ~16.850.000 copies (estimates)
Genre: Horror,
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"King writes with the kind of surety normally associated only with veteran writers. This mixture of science fiction, the occult, secondary school sociology, kids good and bad and genetics turns out to be an extraordinary mixture... guaranteed to give you a chill" — Newgate Callendar (Harold C. Schonberg), New York Times crime reviewer (1974)
"Stephen King's first book is 50 years old, and still horrifyingly relevant" — Margaret Atwood, acclaimed Canadian author and Booker Prize winner
"Carrie at the prom scene... is a marvelous culmination of melodrama" — Harold Bloom, influential American literary critic
"King handles his first novel with considerable accomplishment and very little hokum" — Kirkus Reviews, influential American book review publication
"A master storyteller" — Los Angeles Times, major American newspaper
"Guaranteed to chill you" — The New York Times
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