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Le notti di Salem
705 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 13, 2013
About the author
Stephen King
2,599 books860k followersStephen 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.
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.
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November 15, 2024
È la storia di vampiri per eccellenza. Leggerlo nel 2024, in un mercato ormai saturo di opere incentrate su queste creature, potrebbe inizialmente far percepire il romanzo di Stephen King come poco originale. Tuttavia, bastano poche pagine per rendersi conto che non è affatto così. Questo libro si discosta nettamente dai vampiri a cui ci hanno abituato saghe come Twilight: qui non troverete creature scintillanti al sole, ma esseri oscuri, terrificanti e profondamente radicati nella tradizione horror più classica.
Il romanzo di King si riallaccia più al Dracula di Bram Stoker, sia per la sua concezione del vampiro come figura predatoria e inquietante, sia per l’uso della narrazione corale, un espediente che rende la lettura scorrevole e immersiva. Attraverso la voce di più personaggi, King crea un mondo denso di tensione e mistero, dove l'orrore si insinua nella quotidianità e si impossessa delle vite di un'intera comunità.
Più che una semplice storia di vampiri, è un romanzo che esplora temi universali come la paura dell’ignoto, la fragilità umana e la lotta contro un male apparentemente invincibile. Un'opera imprescindibile per gli amanti dell'horror e della narrativa di qualità.
Il romanzo di King si riallaccia più al Dracula di Bram Stoker, sia per la sua concezione del vampiro come figura predatoria e inquietante, sia per l’uso della narrazione corale, un espediente che rende la lettura scorrevole e immersiva. Attraverso la voce di più personaggi, King crea un mondo denso di tensione e mistero, dove l'orrore si insinua nella quotidianità e si impossessa delle vite di un'intera comunità.
Più che una semplice storia di vampiri, è un romanzo che esplora temi universali come la paura dell’ignoto, la fragilità umana e la lotta contro un male apparentemente invincibile. Un'opera imprescindibile per gli amanti dell'horror e della narrativa di qualità.
October 15, 2024
Un romanzo horror in cui sembra che King voglia mostrare l'orrore e il male che si annida in alcuni essero umani e descrive come questo male possa diventare contagioso e spazzare via un'intera citta'. Ho apprezzato particolarmente la descrizione degli abitanti di Salem a cui viene donato un realismo in una storia completamente surreale. Ho apprezzato meno l'epilogo e la confusione delle ultimissime pagine, che pero' sembrano essere ispirate a Dracula di Bram Stoker.
November 8, 2024
Uno dei miei romanzi preferiti di Stephen King. Nonostante sia solamente il secondo scritto dall’autore, contiene molti degli elementi che ritroviamo in capolavori successivi più maturi come It, l’Ombra dello Scorpione, The Dome, ecc.
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