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Featured in our reading guides: Where to Start with Stephen King and Watched The Long Walk? Read the Stephen King Novel, Then These
Carrie White endures cruelty at school and the strict rules of her home while discovering she can move objects with her mind. A prom night prank turns private suffering into a town-wide catastrophe.
Spinebound shelf note: King's debut still moves fast, with newspaper accounts and testimony giving its horror the feel of a disaster reconstructed afterward.
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Where to go next: For more Stephen King under pressure and on the move, explore The Long Walk.
A master storyteller.
The Los Angeles Times
Guaranteed to chill you.
The New York Times
Gory and horrifying... You can't put it down.
Chicago Tribune
[The] most wonderfully gruesome man on the planet.
USA Today
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