It / Stephen King.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780670813025
- ISBN: 0670813028
- ISBN: 9780451169518
- ISBN: 0451169514
- ISBN: 9781501156687
- ISBN: 1501156683
- ISBN: 9781501175466
- ISBN: 150117546729
- ISBN: 9781501142970
- ISBN: 1501142976
- ISBN: 9781501182099
- ISBN: 1501182099
- ISBN: 9781501175466
- ISBN: 1501175467
- Physical Description: x, 1138 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Viking, 1986.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Publisher, publishing date, and paging may vary. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 1155-1157). |
Formatted Contents Note: | Part 1: The shadow before. After the flood (1957) -- After the festival (1984) -- Six phone calls (1985) -- Derry: The first interlude -- Part 2: June of 1958. Ben Hanscom takes a fall -- Bill Denbrough beats the devil (I) -- One of the missing: A tale from the summer of '58 -- The dam in the barrens -- Georgie's room and the house on Neibolt Street -- Cleaning up -- Derry: The second interlude -- Part 3: Grownups. The reunion -- Walking tours -- Three uninvited guests -- Derry: The third interlude -- Part 4: July of 1958. The apocalyptic rockfight -- The album -- The smoke-hole -- Eddie's bad break -- Another one of the missing: The death of Patrick Hockstetter -- The bullseye -- Derry: The fourth interlude. Part 5: The ritual of Chüd -- Out -- Derry: The last interlude -- Epilogue: Bill Denbrough beats the devil (II). |
Target Audience Note: | 900L Lexile |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR UG 6 70 18940. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Monsters > Fiction. Clowns > Fiction. Good and evil > Fiction. Friendship > Fiction. |
Genre: | Horror fiction. Novels. |
Available copies
- 35 of 52 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 1 of 2 copies available at Henry County Library System.
Holds
- 1 current hold with 52 total copies.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Henry County - Lenora Blackmore | Fic K58S (Text) | I0000000257119 | Fiction | Available | - |
Henry County - Main Library | Fic K58S (Text) | I0000000257118 | Fiction | Checked out | 05/06/2024 |
Kirkus Review
It
Kirkus Reviews
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King's newest is a gargantuan summer sausage, at 1144 pages his largest yet, and is made of the same spiceless grindings as ever: banal characters spewing sawdust dialogue as they blunder about his dark butcher shop. The horror this time out is from beyond the universe, a kind of impossible-to-define malevolence that has holed up in the sewers under the New England town of Derry. The It sustains itself by feeding on fear-charged human meat--mainly children. To achieve the maximum saturation of adrenalin in its victims, It presents itself sometimes as an adorable, balloon-bearing clown which then turns into the most horrible personal vision that the victims can fear. The novel's most lovingly drawn settings are the endless, lightless, muck-filled sewage tunnels into which it draws its victims. Can an entire city--like Derry--be haunted? King asks. Say, by some supergigantic, extragalactic, pregnant spider that now lives in the sewers under the waterworks and sends its evil mind up through the bathtub drain, or any drain, for its victims? In 1741, everyone in Derry township just disappeared--no bones, no bodies--and every 27 years since then something catastrophic has happened in Derry. In 1930, 170 children disappeared. The Horror behind the horrors, though, was first discovered some 27 years ago (in 1958, when Derry was in the grip of a murder spree) by a band of seven fear-ridden children known as the Losers, who entered the drains in search of It. And It they found, behind a tiny door like the one into Alice's garden. But what they found was so horrible that they soon began forgetting it. Now, in 1985, these children are a horror novelist, an accountant, a disc jockey, an architect, a dress designer, the owner of a Manhattan limousine service, and the unofficial Derry town historian. During their reunion, the Losers again face the cyclical rebirth of the town's haunting, which again launches them into the drains. This time they meet It's many projections (as an enormous, tentacled, throbbing eyeball, as a kind of pterodactyl, etc.) before going through the small door one last time to meet. . .Mama Spider! The King of the Pulps smiles and shuffles as he punches out his vulgarian allegory, but he too often sounds bored, as if whipping himself on with his favorite Kirin beer for zip. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Library Journal Review
It
Library Journal
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The amazingly prolific King returns to pure horror, pitting good against evil as in The Stand and The Shining. Moving back and forth between 1958 and 1985, the story tells of seven children in a small Maine town who discover the source of a series of horrifying murders. Having conquered the evil force once, they are summoned together 27 years later when the cycle begins again. As usual, the requisite thrills are in abundance, and King's depiction of youngsters is extraordinarily accurate and sympathetic. But there is enough material in this epic for several novels and stories, and the excessive length and numerous interrelated flashbacks eventually become wearying and annoying. Nevertheless, King is a born storyteller, and It will undoubtedly be in high demand among his fans. BOMC main selection. Eric W. Johnson, Univ. of Bridgeport Lib., Ct. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.