Ebook {Epub PDF} The Bachman Books / Thinner by Richard Bachman

The book that outed Stephen King as Richard Bachman. The pseudonym carried through four books (Rage, the Long Walk, Roadwork and the Running Man) prior to Thinner. After reading Thinner and upon further investigation, Steve Brown, a book clerk at Olsson's Bookstore in Washington, D.C., determined that Bachman was King's psudonym and shared his discovery with King's agent. The Bachman Books / Thinner book. Read 49 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Acclaimed fiction from the acknowledged master, this se /5.

Bachman was successful enough, and growing in popularity, that the fifth Bachman book Thinner was published in hardback. But the pseudonym was finally uncovered almost at publication, when the books had already been printed, so the hardbacks (at least, here in the UK) all had a paper band hurriedly added around the cover proclaiming King was. Thinner is the 20th book published by Stephen King; it was his 17th novel, and the fifth novel written under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman. The book was released by NAL on 19 November The novel is about an obese lawyer who accidentally kills a gypsy, covers it up, and is cursed by the gypsy's father to rapidly lose weight. Fans applaud it as one of King's best novels. The story. Richard Bachman has 27 books on Goodreads with ratings. Richard Bachman's most popular book is Thinner.

The Bachman book Thinner () sold 28, copies during its initial run—and then ten times. The Bachman book Thinner () sold 28, copies during its initial run—and then ten times as many when it was revealed that Bachman was, in fact, King. The pseudonym King originally selected (Gus Pillsbury) is King's maternal grandfather's name, but at the last moment King changed it to Richard Bachman. Thinner is a horror novel by American author Stephen King, published in by NAL under King's pseudonym Richard Bachman. The story centers on lawyer Billy Halleck, who kills a crossing Romani woman in a road accident and escapes legal punishment because of his connections. However, the woman's father places a curse on Halleck, which causes him to lose weight uncontrollably. King, who was overweight at the time of the novel's writing, created the novel's outline following an annual medical exa.