Carrie

In this classic tale of psychic power and human cruelty, a tormented teenage girl reigns terrible vengence down on her enemies at the prom. Reprint.

in One Way Or Another, Everybody Abused Carrie. This Sixteen-year-old Misfit Was Forbidden Everything That Was Young And Fun By Her Fanatical Mother. She Was Teased And Taunted By Her Classmates, Misunderstood By Her Teachers, And Given Up As Hopeless By Almost Everyone.

But Carrie Had A Secret: She Possessed Terrifying Telekinetic Powers That Could Make Inanimate Objects Move, A Lighted Candle Fall, Or A Door Lock. Carrie Could Make All Kinds Of Startling Bizarre, And Malevolent Things Happen. And So She Did One Night, When Feeling Scorned And Humiliated And Growing Angrier And Angrier She Became The Vengeful Demon Who Let The Whole Town -- And All The People In It -- Feel Her Power.

The story of misfit high-school girl, Carrie White, who gradually discovers that she has telekinetic powers. Repressed by a domineering, ultra-religious mother and tormented by her peers at school, her efforts to fit in lead to a dramatic confrontation during the senior prom. ([source][1]) ---------- Also contained in: - [The Shining / 'Salem's Lot / Night Shift / Carrie][2] ---------- See also: - [Selected from Carrie][3] [1]: https://stephenking.com/library/novel/carrie.html [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19558521W [3]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL11018609W/Selected_from_Carrie A modern classic, CARRIE introduced a distinctive new voice in American fiction -- Stephen King. The story of misunderstood high school girl Carrie White, her extraordinary telekinetic powers, and her violent rampage of revenge, remains one of the most barrier-breaking and shocking novels of all time A sixteen-year-old misfit, denied everything by her fanatical mother and abused by her classmates, unleashes her terrifying telekinetic powers on an entire town