{"product_id":"the-stand-9780385199575","title":"The Stand","description":"This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides -- or are chosen. A world in which good rides on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail -- and the worst nightmares of evil are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the dark man. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1978 Stephen King published \u003ci\u003eThe Stand\u003c\/i\u003e, the novel that is now considered to be one of his finest works. But as it was first published, \u003ci\u003eThe Stand\u003c\/i\u003e was incomplete, since more than 150,000 words had been cut from the original manuscript. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow Stephen King's apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil has been restored to its entirety. \u003ci\u003eThe Stand\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Complete And Uncut Edition\u003c\/i\u003e includes more than five hundred pages of material previously deleted, along with new material that King added as he reworked the manuscript for a new generation. It gives us new characters and endows familiar ones with new depths. It has a new beginning and a new ending. What emerges is a gripping work with the scope and moral complexity of a true epic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor hundreds of thousands of fans who read \u003ci\u003eThe Stand\u003c\/i\u003e in its original version and wanted more, this new edition is Stephen King's gift. And those who are reading \u003ci\u003eThe Stand\u003c\/i\u003e for the first time will discover a triumphant and eerily plausible work of the imagination that takes on the issues that will determine our survival.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Doubleday Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/1990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780385199575\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 1200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.50w x 2.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/16\/1990\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/05\/2013 pg. 99\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader Quiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e18948 \/ Stand\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 5.7 \/ \u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade \/ \u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 72\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Stephen King","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43799826759861,"sku":"9780385199575","price":46.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_e919a32a-93b5-48a5-9db4-f75b30a6f48b.jpg?v=1711479038","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-stand-9780385199575","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}