![]() ![]() However, a snowstorm strikes the way, and he drives off a cliff and crashes into a snowbank. He checks from the Hotel Boulderado at Colorado, where he’s completed the initial draft of all his novels since 1974, and makes an alcohol-influenced decision to drive to Los Angeles instead of fly back to New York. Since Misery begins, Paul Sheldon, the author of the wildly popular Misery Chastain novels, has just completed the manuscript of his new crime novel, Fast Cars. It’s been staged as a critically acclaimed and Tony-nominated Broadway play with. Misery was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1988, and was adapted into a Hollywood film starring James Caan and Kathy Bates (who won the Academy Award for her performance as Annie Wilkes). ![]() ![]() King has talked about the way Sheldon’s struggles with writer’s block and his desire to branch out past his most famous characters and genre have been based on feelings he experienced. Misery explores themes of obsession and unhealthy identification with fictional characters, while also serving as a musing on the writing process. She takes him to her home, seemingly to deal with his injuries, but after she finds out that he killed off the personality of Misery in his latest book, she turns abusive and keeps him captive to force him to write a brand new book changing the character’s end - regardless of what it requires. One of King’s most popular and effective books, it centers on Paul Sheldon, a prolific novelist best known for his Victorian-era romance novels starring the character Misery Chastain.
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