Roadmaster

Presentation

At the fine bottom of the Pennsylvania, a mysterious man vêtu of black stops filling the tank at a service station. But the man disappears under strange conditions obliging the police force, from of which Sandy Dearborn, a new recruit, to come to inquire at the station. It must put under sealed the abandoned Buick 8 Roadmaster.

It is by wanting to move the car that the police officers note that it is only one excellent reproduction of Buick: the wheel does not turn, the instrument panel is factitious… And yet, the pump assistant saw this car arriving. At this point in time in the garage where from now on the car (the Hangar B ) is stored, of mysterious phenomena are held. The team in whom Sandy is, the Compagnie D , goes of found transformed.

Sandy tells this history with Ned, the son of old of the team, Curt Wilcox, which has just been killed in a road accident and which was formerly fascinated the most by Buick.

Analyzes

Roadmaster is a succession of memories told by the members of the team who undertook Buick and having for principal narrator Sandy Dearborn.

The model of the car is Buick 8 Roadmaster blue and white model 1958. Roadmaster is the second book of Stephen King has to give " vie" with a car. Indeed, one of its most known novels is not other than Christine , which is red and white Plymouth also of 1958.

Comments

the American title is drawn from a song of Bob Dylan From has Buick 6 .

Stephen King had as an inspiration a voyage by car which it made in 1999. Indeed, it stopped in a station gasoline of Pennsylvania and while it threw a glance in the neighborhoods, it slipped and failed to fall into a river. The idea that it could never not have been found inspired the novel to him.

at the end of 1999, Stephen King had an car accident which failed to kill it. In spite of the fact that Roadmaster speaks about a fatal car accident, Stephen King said that it did not have to change any detail of the history to make it correspond to what actually arrived to him.

Quotations

"The Hangar B, we all were almost there entered at least once. It was not that one wanted of it, oh not. Simply, moments ago when one could not make autrement."
" This motor is a sysmic zone , said Curtis Wilcox.

I moved back abruptly of a step. Although died for one year, Curt had just spoken to me with the ear.

- What takes to you? asked me Ned. It would be said that you have just seen a phantom.

I failed to answer him: I heard a " of it;

Adaptation

The film adaptation of the novel will leave in 2009 to the United States. The scenario was written by Richard Chizmar. George A. Romero, which adapted several novels of Stephen King to the cinema, is the realizer.

External bonds

Review de Roadmaster on the official site of Stephen King

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