As Richard Bachman1984
Thinner
Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman
Obese attorney Billy Halleck strikes and kills an old Romani woman with his car and is acquitted through corrupt connections. The woman's father places a one-word curse on him: 'Thinner.' Billy begins losing weight uncontrollably.
Did You Know?
- •The first Bachman book published in hardcover
- •The novel that led to the unmasking of Bachman as King, when a bookstore clerk noticed similarities
- •Adapted as a film in 1996
- •The dedication to 'the late Richard Bachman' in later editions was darkly humorous
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