But life in this small town-evoked as vividly as a Winesburg or a Spoon River-is not what it seems. Vic Trenton, New York adman obsessed by the struggle to hand on to his one big account, his restive and not entirely faithful wife, Donna, and their four-year-old son, Tad, moved to Castle Rock seeking the peace of rural Maine. What happens to Cujo, and to those unlucky enough to be near him, makes for the most heart-squeezing novel Stephen King has yet written. One day Cujo pursues a rabbit into a bolt-hole-a cave inhabited by some very sick bats. He would-Ĭujo is a two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard, the beloved family pet of the Joe Cambers of Castle Rock, Maine, and the best friend ten-year-old Brett Camber has ever had. But the bats kept biting his tender face with their sharp little rat-teeth. He leaped at them again and again, and each time he leaped he brought one down, teeth clamped on a leathery, twitching wing. It was dusk, and the sky was dark with wheeling, red-eyed bats. His dreams were confused, lunatic things. He lay on the verge of grass by the porch, his mangled snout on his fore-paws.
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