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Informationen zum Autor Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books! all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes The Institute ! Elevation ! The Outsider ! Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King)! and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch ! Finders Keepers ! and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and an AT&T Audience Network original television series). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower and It are the basis for major motion pictures! with It now the highest grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award! the 2014 National Medal of Arts! and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor! Maine! with his wife! novelist Tabitha King. Zusammenfassung It: Chapter Two —now a major motion picture! Stephen King’s terrifying! classic #1 New York Times bestseller! “a landmark in American literature” ( Chicago Sun-Times )—about seven adults who return to their hometown to confront a nightmare they had first stumbled on as teenagers…an evil without a name: It . Welcome to Derry! Maine. It’s a small city! a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real. They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But the promise they made twenty-eight years ago calls them reunite in the same place where! as teenagers! they battled an evil creature that preyed on the city’s children. Now! children are being murdered again and their repressed memories of that terrifying summer return as they prepare to once again battle the monster lurking in Derry’s sewers. Readers of Stephen King know that Derry! Maine! is a place with a deep! dark hold on the author. It reappears in many of his books! including Bag of Bones ! Hearts in Atlantis ! and 11/22/63 . But it all starts with It . “Stephen King’s most mature work” ( St. Petersburg Times )! “ It will overwhelm you…to be read in a well-lit room only” ( Los Angeles Times ). ...
