I didn’t know we were ever going to get this one. It’s a novel along the lines of Of Mice and Men. I read the first couple of chapters here.
You have made me so happy today, Steve! sniffle
This is a posthumous novel?
I thought that old Dick had succumbed to cancer of the pseudonym.
Yes, but his “widow” was in possession of some of Bachman’s manuscripts that were unpublished at the time of his “death” and were given to Stephen King. One, The Regulators was published in 1996 (the Stephen King novel Desperation was released simultaneously with The Regulators) and in the foreward to The Regulators, King hinted there may be another Bachman novel yet to be “found”. Blaze is this newly “discovered” Bachman work.
I forgot Steve tried to blame The Regulators on Bachman. Other than that, I really like the Bachman stuff, and the first two chapters of this one sound promising.
And here I was thinking it was a book by that Jonathon Livingston Seagull guy.
StG
I seem to remember reading something King wrote somewhere where he said Blaze was actually the first novel he ever wrote, even before Carrie. I can’t remember why he said he shelved it (too depressing maybe?), but I do remember the title and his description of the plot.
Yeah, I know I have some information about this on my shelves at home. It just hasn’t occurred to me at a convenient time to go look at it yet.
I was home at lunch, so I got out my copy of Stephen Spignesi’s The Lost Work of Stephen King and looked up Blaze. There were spoilers aplenty, but the gist of it is, a retarded man kidnaps a baby. Apparently Steve submitted it for publication along with Salem’s Lot, and Salem’s Lot was chosen instead.