Безсъние. Част 2

Insomnia Split-Volume #2

by Stephen King, Стивън Кинг, Юлия Чернева (Translator)

Ралф Робъртс, пенсиониран вдовец, започва да страда от безсъние. С влошаването на състоянието си той започва да вижда неща, които другите не виждат: аурата на хората или малки човечета в бели дрехи, които нарича „малките бели доктори“ заради външността им. Робъртс започва да възприема иначе недоловими аспекти на действителността и влиянието им върху „реалния“ свят. Открива, че негова позната, на име Луиз Чейс, страда от същото. Тя се присъединява към усилията му да предотврати надигащото се зло и научава истината за „докторите“. (Луиз и Ралф ги наричат „Клото, Лахезис и Атропос“, по имената на орисниците от гръцката митология.) Фонът, на който се развива действието, е наближаващият сблъсък между група от защитници на правата на жените и група противници на абортите.

Genres: Horror, Fiction

288 pages, Paperback

First published September 15, 1994

About the author

Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged.

Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. From his sophomore year at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. He came to support the anti-war movement on the Orono campus, arriving at his stance from a conservative view that the war in Vietnam was unconstitutional. He graduated in 1970, with a B.A. in English and qualified to teach on the high school level. A draft board examination immediately post-graduation found him 4-F on grounds of high blood pressure, limited vision, flat feet, and punctured eardrums.

He met Tabitha Spruce in the stacks of the Fogler Library at the University, where they both worked as students; they married in January of 1971. As Stephen was unable to find placement as a teacher immediately, the Kings lived on his earnings as a laborer at an industrial laundry, and her student loan and savings, with an occasional boost from a short story sale to men's magazines.

Stephen made his first professional short story sale ("The Glass Floor") to Startling Mystery Stories in 1967. Throughout the early years of his marriage, he continued to sell stories to men's magazines. Many were gathered into the Night Shift collection or appeared in other anthologies.

In the fall of 1971, Stephen began teaching English at Hampden Academy, the public high school in Hampden, Maine. Writing in the evenings and on the weekends, he continued to produce short stories and to work on novels.

Reviews

[Dovilė Stonė]

Pasidaviau ir nebaigiau.

[Danko Glibota · Rating 2 out of 5]

Los pocetak knjizevne 2019
Knjiga bi bila dobra, oko 4/5 da se skrati za tri cetvrtine.
Prvih 300 strana King samo opisuje penzionere i njihove dosadnjikave zivote, Nesanicu sam cita iskljucivo po danu jer bi me navecer ironicno uspavala.
Ralph rogers je zanimljiv lik ali King je pretjera sa beznacajnim stranicama, steta.
Najveci "slow burner" sta sam procita do sada.

[Kotryna Kerpienė · Rating 4 out of 5]

Labai savito stiliaus knyga, buvo gan sunku ja pabaigti skaityti. megstantiems fantastika ir siaubo romanus (nors sis labiau is fantastikos srities) turetu patikti.

[Elena · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was a blast to read this story. Specially for that I myself have an insomnia.

[Сибин Майналовски · Rating 5 out of 5]

Кралят отново е сътворил шедьовър! :)

[Hitomi · Rating 5 out of 5]

最後がなかなか良かった。

人生、イヤなことの方が多いですのぉ。

不眠症は、上の次元に行けるステップかと思うと
楽しめるような、気がしてきました。