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The Incredible Shrinking Man (Mass Market Paperback)

by Richard Matheson (Author)
4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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  • Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Tor Books; 1st Tor Ed edition (31 Dec 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0812522990
  • ISBN-13: 978-0812522990
  • Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.7 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,939,901 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Long out of print until now, the classic story--the basis of the 1957 Universal motion picture of the same name--is accompanied by several other tales of suspense by a multi-award-winning writer. Reprint.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Richard Christian Matheson is somebody else!, 4 May 1999
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Richard Christian Matheson is a terrific writer, but he is not Richard Matheson, the author of this book. They are son and father, respectively. Matheson is elder is one of the great fantasists of the twentieth century. Please fix!!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars CAREY MAY STILL BE SHRINKING TODAY, 31 Dec 1998
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ONCE AGAIN MATHESON SHOWS US THE GENIUS THAT WE ALL HAVE COME TO EXPECT FROM HIS CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT. ONLY R.M. CAN CREATE CHARACTERS THAT HAVE BEEN LEFT SO ALONE AND DESPERATE THAT WE HAVE NO CHOICE BUT FEEL SORRY FOR THEM. I CAN ALMOST PLACE MYSELF THERE.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A very imaginative adventure and 9 amusing short stories., 26 Nov 1998
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Richard Matheson's novel is one great adventure yarn. At times, it is a too in-your-face existential allegory (what with Scott Carey's, the main character, constant doubts on why he keeps on hanging to life?), and the tale never really points to the direction it takes in the ending. Yet, it left me satisfied to have followed it up through the whole journey.

The story of Scott's gradual descent into oblivion is framed by the events in what he expects to be his last week on Earth, before he shrinks to nothing. His cat-and-mouse game with a black widow bent on devouring him is an involving thriller. And in holding the tension of this hunt is where Matheson's prose shines.

The 9 stories included go from the darkly comic to the thrilling. Here are the titles of these stories:

Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
The Test
The Holiday Man
Mantage
The Distributor
By Appointment only
Button, Button
Duel
Shoofly

Most of these share one of the basic topics of the novel: a man looking for a meaning to his actions, his life, a reason to go on. These ones, together with "The Shrinking Man", show the preocupations Matheson reflects about through his whole work.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A man faces many dangers when he gradually shrinks.
Richard Matheson's classic tale,familiar to many of us from the movie version,is an engrossing fantasy about a man named Scott Carey who is gradually shrinking. Read more
Published on 30 July 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic
Richard Matheson's "Shrinking Man" is one of the best novels I have ever read, up there with Clarke's "2001:A Space Oddessy" and the very best Stephen King... Read more
Published on 19 Jun 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars The greatest adveture/horror story ever written....
I was shocked by how good this book is: Astoundingly well-written, scary, funny, deeply involving. Stephen King and Dean Koontz dream at night about being this good... Read more
Published on 13 Mar 1998

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