Summary
Stephen King: It I-II
First Edition
The backbone of the plot is the fate of seven children from the haunted town of Derry, six boys and one girl. A group known as the Losers' Club, which experiences an encounter with the darkest force in the world in its childhood. Children, mistreated during the summer holidays, encounter a surreal entity. A manifestation of terror that appears every 27-28 years and commits horrific crimes in the state of Maine. He appears in the form of the human clown Pennywise, designed after a combination of three popular American clowns. The Losers' Club comes into conflict with "The One", and everything is set in motion by the death of the younger brother of stuttering boy Bill Denborough. 28 years later, when the children grow up to be successful people of another world, a call immediately takes them back to the past and they gather again, called to childhood, to meet "The One". Although before and after the novel Ono, King wrote many other works, this novel is King's synthesis of conceptual writing. Aspects that characterize King's way of writing, expressive style, narrative methods and thematic treatment, are summed up in a real-life horror drama that, with unprecedented ease, flows through a thousand pages into an iconic plot of truly epic proportions. The unusual, ingeniously original theme is widely elaborated and the two parts in Algoritm's edition are really two parts of the plot. The first part is a strong, dynamic introduction to the external horror plot, internal social themes and colorful characters. And the second part will drag you into an even stronger vortex of this tangle, with a deeply impressive interdimensional, final grand showdown.
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