Desperation

Hardcover, 545 pages

English language

Published Nov. 2, 1996 by Hodder & Stoughton.

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978-0-340-65427-9
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Welcome to Desperation. A place beyond your wildest imaginings. Where the unbelievable can become reality ...

Desperation: a small town in the middle of the Nevada desert. It looks hauntingly familiar with its signs to the Desperation Coffee Shop and Video Spot. Just off the loneliest highway in America, it should be a refuge in a wasteland. But there's something missing. The once thriving copper mining town now seems eerily empty. Almost abandoned. Except for a few desert animals — snake, coyote, buzzard. And of course the local cop patrolling the wilderness road — Desperation's unique regulator.

Headed down Highway 50 are travellers who are never going to reach their destinations. Like the Jacksons, a young professor and his wife going home to New York City; the Carvers, a Wentworth, Ohio family bound for a vacation in Lake Tahoe; and Johnny Marinville, the once famous writer who's getting back on …

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