Book
The tommyknockers
Record details
- ISBN: 0399133143
- ISBN: 9780399133145
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Physical Description:
558 p. ; 24cm.
print - Publisher: New York : Putnam, c1987.
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| Genre: | Horror fiction. |
Available copies
- 6 of 10 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.
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- 0 current holds with 10 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prince Rupert Library | King (Text) | 33294001752682 | Adult Fiction - Second Floor | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
"While looking for firewood in the forest that stretches behind her backyard, Bobbi finds part of an ancient spaceship still humming with some sort of life."
Late last nihgt and the night before, Tommyknockers Tommyknockers, knocking at the door. I want to go out, don't know if I can. cause I'm so afraid, of the Tommyknocker man. It begins with a writer named Roberta Anderson, looking for firewood in the forest that stretches behind her house. Bobbi stumbles over three inches of metal, which unusually heavy spring runoff has left sticking out of the soil. A logger's beer can she thinks at first but the metal was as solid as a mother-rock. It begins with Bobbi's discovery of the ship in the earth, a ship buried for millions of years but still vibrating faintly, still humming with some sort of life...faint...weak...but still better left alone. Bobbi then begins to dig - tentatively at first, the compulsively - and is joined by her old friend (and onetime lover) Jim Gardener. Aid by a weirdly advanced technology, their excavation proceeds apace. And as they uncover more and more of an artifact both familiar and so unbelievable it is almost beyond comprehension, the inhabitants of Haven start to change. There is a new hot-water heater in Bobbi's basement - a hot-water heater that apparently runs on flashlight batteries. The vengeful housewife who learns of her husband's affair - from a picture of Jesus on top of her TV, a picture that begins to talk. Not to mention the ten-year-old magician who makes his little brother disappear...for real. The townspeople of Haven are "becoming" - being welded into one organic, homicidal and fearsomely brilliant entity in fatal thrall to the Tommyknockers.
Late last nihgt and the night before, Tommyknockers Tommyknockers, knocking at the door. I want to go out, don't know if I can. cause I'm so afraid, of the Tommyknocker man. It begins with a writer named Roberta Anderson, looking for firewood in the forest that stretches behind her house. Bobbi stumbles over three inches of metal, which unusually heavy spring runoff has left sticking out of the soil. A logger's beer can she thinks at first but the metal was as solid as a mother-rock. It begins with Bobbi's discovery of the ship in the earth, a ship buried for millions of years but still vibrating faintly, still humming with some sort of life...faint...weak...but still better left alone. Bobbi then begins to dig - tentatively at first, the compulsively - and is joined by her old friend (and onetime lover) Jim Gardener. Aid by a weirdly advanced technology, their excavation proceeds apace. And as they uncover more and more of an artifact both familiar and so unbelievable it is almost beyond comprehension, the inhabitants of Haven start to change. There is a new hot-water heater in Bobbi's basement - a hot-water heater that apparently runs on flashlight batteries. The vengeful housewife who learns of her husband's affair - from a picture of Jesus on top of her TV, a picture that begins to talk. Not to mention the ten-year-old magician who makes his little brother disappear...for real. The townspeople of Haven are "becoming" - being welded into one organic, homicidal and fearsomely brilliant entity in fatal thrall to the Tommyknockers.
