As the story unfolds, the reader realises just how much this extraordinary condition mirrors that of real illness – of preparation, acceptance, learning. This novel follows a very similar track, though with King’s usual flair.
I’ve seen it 30+ times and it still makes me cry. If you haven’t seen it, I HIGHLY suggest watching it. It’s a beautiful, moving piece of cinema even if you didn’t get the subtext (which I didn’t as a young teen) which addresses terminal illness and how control is plucked from your fingers. It shows her as she gets more distant (literally) rising higher in the air with her worsening condition, towards the Karman Line (the boundary of space), and the effect it has on her family. She hangs there, no longer affected by gravity and completely immovable by her family, her doctors and anything else. It tells the story of a woman who, one day, is raised off the floor by uncontrollable forces. It’s just 20 minutes in length and it features the UK legend that is Olivia Colman. My favorite ever short film is called ‘ The Karman Line’ (2015). We follow Scott through his acceptance of his new reality, and how this acceptance allows him to interact with his often-ignorant, sometimes-cold neighbours (in Castle Rock, Maine, no less).Īs I read the first few pages I realised that I’d been affected by this concept before.
Scott Carey has realised that he has a strange and untreatable condition – that he is dropping pounds off his weight, without getting thinner. It contains, as so many of King’s greatest pieces of writing do, an extraordinary thing happening within an ordinary world. Just 132 pages in length, and with pretty large font, I read it comfortably in an afternoon – and I’ve been thinking about it ever since. That hasn’t always seen me through, as some of King’s latest work (‘Revival’ for example) had been a bit of a disappointment. Still, I was looking forward to being able to get my teeth into this little novella. I feel like I bought this book with my eyes closed, trusting that it would be a good one.
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