{"product_id":"9780385199575","title":"The Stand: Complete and Uncut","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47025260331248,"sku":"9780385199575","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780385199575_p0.jpg?v=1763693940","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780385199575","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}