# Desperation

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- Book: [Desperation](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-king/desperation) ([Desperation.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-king/desperation.md))
- Authors: [Stephen King](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephen-king)
- Publisher: Penguin USA, Inc.
- ISBN: 978-11-0113-779-6
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2009-01-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Several cross-country travelers--including a writer, a family on vacation, and a professor and his wife--end up in the little mining town of Desperation, where a crazy policeman and evil forces force them to fight for their lives. Read by Kathy Bates. Simultaneous.