In a parallel plot, Carey has a problem with his neighbours. He confides his story only to a retired doctor friend who he swears to secrecy on what is happening to him. Also, if Carey lifts an object or person while being weighed, they become weightless until he lets go of them when they return to their usual weight condition.Ĭarey seems remarkably unfrightened by his unique life threatening condition. No one in the book even tries to speculate where the condition started.Īnother contrast between Carey and Thinner’s Billy Halleck is that Carey is getting lighter but not losing a single ounce of body density. This may sound similar territory to the idea at the heart of King’s 1984 novel Thinner (written under his Richard Bachman pseudonym), but where that centred on a fat man subjected to supernaturally induced anorexia through a gypsy curse, Carey’s weight loss has no explanation or apparent origin. It centres on Scott Carey, a man who is losing weight at an alarming weight. King’s allegorical short novella is quite a departure from his horror work, proving to be quite a moving, even tear inducing fantasy. Review of Elevation by Stephen King Fiction Reviews
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