Stephen King: If it bleeds

 Stephen King: If it bleeds    -  366 oldal 

szerintem: ★★☆☆☆

News people have a saying: 'If it bleeds, it leads'. And a bomb at Albert Macready Middle School is guaranteed to lead any bulletin.

Holly Gibney of the Finders Keepers detective agency is working on the case of a missing dog - and on her own need to be more assertive - when she sees the footage on TV. But when she tunes in again, to the late-night report, she realizes there is something not quite right about the correspondent who was first on the scene. So begins 'If It Bleeds' , a stand-alone sequel to The Outsider featuring the incomparable Holly on her first solo case.

Dancing alongside are three more long stories - 'Mr Harrigan's Phone', 'The Life of Chuck' and 'Rat' .

The novella is a form King has returned to over and over again in the course of his amazing career, and many have been made into iconic films, If It Bleeds is a uniquely satisfying collection of longer short fiction by an incomparably gifted writer.

" 'Youth is a wonderful thing,' said Mr Harrigan. 'What a shame it's wasted on children.' "

"In the twenty-first century, I think our phones are how we are wadded to the world. If so, it's probably a bad marriage." 

" 'I want to believe in God, Unc, and I sort of do, but I don't understand why it has to be this way. Why god would let it be this way. It's a mystery? You're the hotshot philosophy guy and that's the best you can do?' " 

"He supposed Franzen had had a point about the time before writing a novel actually began. It was a good time, because everything you saw and heard was possible grist for the mill. Everything was malleable. The mind could build a city, remodel it, then raze it, all while you were taking a shower or shaving or having a piss. Once you began, however, that changed. Every sentence you wrote, every word you wrote, limited your options a little more." 

"If it was a lie it was a white one, just a device to short-circuit an argument before it could be born. Husbands and wifes did it all the time. It was the way marriages survived."