She is determined to stop him, and Paul becomes her prisoner. The Annie discovers that Paul wants to kill Misery and to write different kinds of book. When Annie finds Paul after a car accident, she takes him home to look after him. She loves all his books about Misery Chastain. Paul Sheldon is Annie Wilkes's favourite writer. Contemporary / British English A story by Stephen King the master of horror. Contemporary / British English A story by Stephen King - the master of horror. Fiona Webster About the Author:īook Description Paperback. And yet it's a tight, highly resonant echo chamber of a book-one of King's shortest, and best novels ever. Misery touches on several large themes: the state of possession by an evil being, the idea that art is an act in which the artist willingly becomes captive, the tortured condition of being a writer, and the fears attendant to becoming a 'brand-name' bestselling author with legions of zealous fans. Annie Wilkes literally breathes life into him. He hates her, he fears her, he wants to kill her but all the same he needs her power. The manuscript fragments he produces tell of a great Bee Goddess, an African queen reminiscent of H. Thus, in the novel within a novel, the romance novel that his mad captor-nurse, Annie Wilkes, forces him to write, he goes to Africa-a mysterious continent that evokes for him the frightening, implacable solidity of a woman's (Annie's) body. Paul Sheldon, the hero of Misery, sees himself as a caged parrot who must return to Africa in order to be free. Each is about a writer faced with the dominating monster of his unpredictable muse. Each novel bristles with claustrophobia, stinging insects, and the threat of a lethal explosion. In Misery (1987), as in The Shining (1977), a writer is trapped in an evil house during a Colorado winter.

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