He weighs the same with or without clothes, no matter how heavy they might be. He looks exactly the same as he always has, but when he steps on the scale, no matter what the number decreases. Scott hasn’t changed his lifestyle or his eating habits. What people can’t see is that he has a few odd things happening to him recently, starting with steadily losing weight.
(Just as an aside, signifying nothing – King can be a little over-generous in his use of expletives, but in Elevation he uses barely any, which makes this novella accessible to a wider reading audience.Scott Carey looks like an average man on the outside. “The night was cold, chilling the sweat on his face, but the air was as sweet and crisp as the first bite of a fall apple.” But don’t be fooled – this man is a master of his craft, and every now and then, he’ll casually throw in a sentence that is, in my humble opinion, pure genius: It’s easy to dismiss Stephen King as “popular” - whatever that’s supposed to mean! I personally like his writing style, which has an easy flow to it. King again uses his familiar town of Castle Rock as a microcosm to demonstrate how destructive prejudice and intolerance can be, and how overcoming these emotions can be life-changing. He explores how people treat each other, and at the heart of all his novels are themes of friendship, kindness and redemption. They are always about the characters, and how they respond to a situation - whether it’s horrific or not. Trying to categorise Stephen King’s books is fraught with difficulty - Elevation is a case in point.Īt a mere 132 pages, it’s barely a novella, so should it be shelved with short stories? And it’s by Stephen King, so it has to be horror, right? Wrong! Anyone who has more than a passing acquaintance with King’s writing will know that even his horror novels aren’t really about horror.
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