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Blaze in June

Lou_SytsmaLou_Sytsma
edited February 2007 in General news
Lilja reports that Scribner announced that BLAZE will be published on June 12, 2007.

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  • Lou_SytsmaLou_Sytsma
    Wow - that seems pretty fast! I thought King was doing a rewrite to modernize the tale.
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    Perhaps "update" rather than modernize. King tends to rewrite fairly fast. It's also a very short novel by his standards.
  • Lou_SytsmaLou_Sytsma
    Must be Bev.



    Does Blaze give anyone a 'Of Mice and Men' vibe besides me?
  • flaggflagg
    Yes! I thought about it also :)
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    Lou_Sytsma wrote:

    Does Blaze give anyone a 'Of Mice and Men' vibe besides me?


    It gave King that sort of vibe, too--that's how he described the book in the Different Seasons afterword where he first talked about it.
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    Scribner is listing the book as



    Blaze

    A Posthumous Novel
  • Lou_SytsmaLou_Sytsma
    Good memory Bev. I probably read that and forgot it about but the similarity is pretty obvious.



    Love the posthumous angle!
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    Another interesting bit of trivia: in 1998, Steve Spignesi wrote (in The Lost Works of Stephen King) "The novel has a downbeat ending typical of a Bachman tale."
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    Blaze: A Posthumous Novel

    By Richard Bachman

    Foreword by Stephen King



    List Price: $23.00

    Hardcover, 256 pages

    ISBN-10: 1-4165-5484-X

    ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-5484-4
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    From Amazon/UK



    "At 6'7"and just under 300 lbs, Clay Blaisdell is one big mother, but his capers were just small-time until he met George Rackley. George introduced him to a hundred cons and one big idea: kidnapping the child of rich parents. The Gerards are filthy rich, and the last twig on the family tree could be worth millions. There's only one problem: by the time the deal goes down, the brains of the partnership is dead. Or is he? Now Blaze is running into the teeth of a howling storm and the cops are closing in. He's got a baby as a hostage, and the crime of the century just turned into a race against time in the white hell of the Maine woods."
  • BevVincentBevVincent

    ">The paperback edition of Blaze     will be out on December 26.
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    Lilja sent me a link to the cover:



  • BevVincentBevVincent
    Lilja has the UK cover, too:



  • BevVincentBevVincent
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    Lilja reports that the narrator for the audio version of Blaze is Ron McLarty.
  • BevVincentBevVincent
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    Full Disclosure -- King's forward to Blaze
  • Lou_SytsmaLou_Sytsma
    Thanks Bev! Man if anyone ever had any questions about Joe Hill's lineage need just see that King photo.
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    Unless I overlooked them, the excerpt with King's foreward omitted his footnotes, some fifteen in total.



    The ARC of Blaze, which I received today, also has the short story Memory at the back as a preview for Duma Key. Not sure if it will appear in the final hardcover or not, but I don't see why not.
  • BevVincentBevVincent
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