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by Stephen King
About 16 pages (4,826 words)
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There are two audiobook versions of Desperation. An abridged version (New York: Penguin Audiobooks, 1996), read by Kathy Bates, comprises six cassettes and runs for nine hours. Bates has shown her sensitivity to King's fictional milieu by her brilliant portrayals of Annie Wilkes in the motion picture version of Misery (motion picture, 1990; novel, 1987; see separate entry) and of the title character in Dolores Claiborne (1992). Bates's rendition of the novel.....

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Desperation from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.

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