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Sto caricando le informazioni... Fear Nothing: A Novel (originale 1998; edizione 2012)di Dean Koontz (Autore)
Informazioni sull'operaL'uomo che amava le tenebre di Dean Koontz (1998)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Fiction, Thriller, Horror, Christopher Snow, Moonlight Bay Trilogy, Book 1, Christopher Snow is born with a rare genetic disorder, he has xeroderma pigmentosum (XP), a light-sensitivity so severe that he cannot leave his house in daylight, cannot enter a normally-lit room, and cannot sit at a computer, While investigating the death of his mother, he discovers she was engaged in secret experiments on a nearby military base, experiments which went wrong and which produced monsters, but Christopher knows the night world better than the dark adversaries that stalk his quiet town, First published, under the title: "Fear Nothing", by Cemetery Dance Publications, Forest Hill, Maryland, 1997, 448 pp., First Italian edition, under the title: "L'uomo che amava le tenebre", Sperling & Kupfer, Milano, 1998, translated by Annabella Caminiti, 432 pp. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Appartiene alle SerieMoonlight Bay (1) Premi e riconoscimentiMenzioniElenchi di rilievo
Fiction.
Horror.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML:Christopher Snow is the best-known resident of 12,000-strong Moonlight Bay, California. This is because 28-year-old Chris has xeroderma pigmentosum (XP)â??a light-sensitivity so severe that he cannot leave his house in daylight, cannot enter a normally-lit room, cannot sit at a computer. Chris's natural element is the night, and his parents, both academics, chose to live in Moonlight Bay because in a small town Chris can make the nightscape his ownâ??roaming freely through the town on his bike, surfing in the moonlight, exploring while most people sleep. But Chris's brilliant mother, a scientist, was killed in a car accident 2 years ago, and as the book opens his father, Steven Snow, is dying of cancer; Chris's protected life is about to change forever. We meet Chris as he is carefully preparing himself to go out in the late-afternoon sun to visit the hospital. In his last moments of life his father tells Chris he is "sorry" and that Chris should "fear nothing"â??cryptic words that Chris cannot really relate to. Steven Snow's body is removed to the hospital basement for transport to the funeral home/crematorium, and when Chris goes downstairs for a final moment of farewell, he witnesses a frightening and clandestine encounter: the funeral director and another man Chris doesn't recognize are substituting the body of a hitchhiker for Steven Snow's bodyâ??which is being taken not to the crematorium but to some secret destination. For Chris, this scene is the first intimation of a conspiracy that he will come to realize envelopes many of his townspeople. His parents knew of it and wanted to protect Chris from it. His best friend has had hints of something wrong because of the frightening nocturnal visitors that have come to his beachhouse. And the first person to try to explain to Chris what's going onâ??and warn him about the special danger he himself is inâ??will be hideously murdered. In the 24 hours this book encompasses, Christopher Snow will find out that, sheltered though he's been, he has the soul of a fighter and an adventurer. By the end of the book he will have killed a man, will have discovered the role his own mother played in the birth of the conspiracy, will have come to recognize the extraordinary guardians that, unknown to him, have watched over him for years. He will realize that some people hate him, others revere him, and neither his own life nor those of anyone he knows will ever be the same. From the Paper Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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