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The tie-in edition of the nine-part CBS All Access series starring Whoopi Goldberg, Alexander Skarsgard, and James Marsden, premiering in the USA December 17, 2020.FIRST CAME THE VIRUS. AND THEN THE DREAMS...A man escapes from a biological testing facility, unknowingly carrying a deadly weapon: a mutated strain of super-flu that will wipe out over 99 percent of the world's population within a few weeks.Those who remain are scared, bewildered, and in need of a leader. Two emerge - Mother Abagail, the benevolent 108-year-old woman who urges them to build a peaceful community in Boulder, Colorado; and Randall Flagg, the 'dark man', the apostate of death, the warlord of the charnel house and Prince of Evil.Now the survivors must choose between them - and ultimately decide the fate of all humanity.Stephen King's apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and tangled in an elemental struggle between good and evil is a classic for our times.'A masterpiece' - Guardian'His work plumbs with unnerving accuracy, the hopes and fears of an entire nation' - Observer
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The Stand, Stephen King
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- Released
- 2021
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- Title
- The Stand
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Stephen King
- Publisher
- Hodder Paperbacks
- Released
- 2021
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 1529356547
- ISBN13
- 9781529356540
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Nature, Fantasy, Animals, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Suspense, Horror, USA, American Literature, Death, Gifts for younger schoolchildren, Gifts for men, Adapted for Film, Dogs, America, Marvel, Fight, Post-apocalyptic, Apocalypse, Adapted into Series, Evil, Viral Infections, Stories About Dogs, Pandemic, Good, Man and Dog, Epidemic, Walter Padick
- First published
- 1990
- Original title
- The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition
- Rating
- 4.3 out of 5
- Description
- The tie-in edition of the nine-part CBS All Access series starring Whoopi Goldberg, Alexander Skarsgard, and James Marsden, premiering in the USA December 17, 2020.FIRST CAME THE VIRUS. AND THEN THE DREAMS...A man escapes from a biological testing facility, unknowingly carrying a deadly weapon: a mutated strain of super-flu that will wipe out over 99 percent of the world's population within a few weeks.Those who remain are scared, bewildered, and in need of a leader. Two emerge - Mother Abagail, the benevolent 108-year-old woman who urges them to build a peaceful community in Boulder, Colorado; and Randall Flagg, the 'dark man', the apostate of death, the warlord of the charnel house and Prince of Evil.Now the survivors must choose between them - and ultimately decide the fate of all humanity.Stephen King's apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and tangled in an elemental struggle between good and evil is a classic for our times.'A masterpiece' - Guardian'His work plumbs with unnerving accuracy, the hopes and fears of an entire nation' - Observer