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Het lijk / De ademhalingsmethode
In Het Lijk (The body/Stand by me) leren vier jongens de waarde van echte vriendschap kennen...
Dit is het verhaal dat verteld wordt door een advocaat in de 249B East Thirty-fifth Street, een club waar verhalen verteld worden. Boven het haardvuur zit een steen, met de inscriptie: "It's the tale, not he who tells it." Deze steen is als het ware een metafoor voor de verhalenverteller. Hier wordt het verhaal The man who would not shake hands verteld, hier zijn de kamers eindeloos en de butler van het huis, Mr. Stevens (zonder twijfel een verwijzing naar Stephen), zegt dat er altijd meer verhalen zullen zijn, wat er ook gebeurt. Het kerstverhaal dat hier aan de orde is, gaat over een dokter in de jaren 1930, die een speciale ademhalingsmethode ontwikkelt om te voorkomen dat moeders zouden sterven tijdens de geboorte van hun kind. Sandra Stansfield, een alleenstaande hoogzwangere vrouw, is van plan de techniek van de dokter op te volgen en de dood te overwinnen.
Dit is het verhaal dat verteld wordt door een advocaat in de 249B East Thirty-fifth Street, een club waar verhalen verteld worden. Boven het haardvuur zit een steen, met de inscriptie: "It's the tale, not he who tells it." Deze steen is als het ware een metafoor voor de verhalenverteller. Hier wordt het verhaal The man who would not shake hands verteld, hier zijn de kamers eindeloos en de butler van het huis, Mr. Stevens (zonder twijfel een verwijzing naar Stephen), zegt dat er altijd meer verhalen zullen zijn, wat er ook gebeurt. Het kerstverhaal dat hier aan de orde is, gaat over een dokter in de jaren 1930, die een speciale ademhalingsmethode ontwikkelt om te voorkomen dat moeders zouden sterven tijdens de geboorte van hun kind. Sandra Stansfield, een alleenstaande hoogzwangere vrouw, is van plan de techniek van de dokter op te volgen en de dood te overwinnen.
- GenresHorror
301 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1991
69 people want to read
About the author
Stephen King
2,385 books890k followersStephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged.
Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. From his sophomore year at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. He came to support the anti-war movement on the Orono campus, arriving at his stance from a conservative view that the war in Vietnam was unconstitutional. He graduated in 1970, with a B.A. in English and qualified to teach on the high school level. A draft board examination immediately post-graduation found him 4-F on grounds of high blood pressure, limited vision, flat feet, and punctured eardrums.
He met Tabitha Spruce in the stacks of the Fogler Library at the University, where they both worked as students; they married in January of 1971. As Stephen was unable to find placement as a teacher immediately, the Kings lived on his earnings as a laborer at an industrial laundry, and her student loan and savings, with an occasional boost from a short story sale to men's magazines.
Stephen made his first professional short story sale ("The Glass Floor") to Startling Mystery Stories in 1967. Throughout the early years of his marriage, he continued to sell stories to men's magazines. Many were gathered into the Night Shift collection or appeared in other anthologies.
In the fall of 1971, Stephen began teaching English at Hampden Academy, the public high school in Hampden, Maine. Writing in the evenings and on the weekends, he continued to produce short stories and to work on novels.
Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. From his sophomore year at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. He came to support the anti-war movement on the Orono campus, arriving at his stance from a conservative view that the war in Vietnam was unconstitutional. He graduated in 1970, with a B.A. in English and qualified to teach on the high school level. A draft board examination immediately post-graduation found him 4-F on grounds of high blood pressure, limited vision, flat feet, and punctured eardrums.
He met Tabitha Spruce in the stacks of the Fogler Library at the University, where they both worked as students; they married in January of 1971. As Stephen was unable to find placement as a teacher immediately, the Kings lived on his earnings as a laborer at an industrial laundry, and her student loan and savings, with an occasional boost from a short story sale to men's magazines.
Stephen made his first professional short story sale ("The Glass Floor") to Startling Mystery Stories in 1967. Throughout the early years of his marriage, he continued to sell stories to men's magazines. Many were gathered into the Night Shift collection or appeared in other anthologies.
In the fall of 1971, Stephen began teaching English at Hampden Academy, the public high school in Hampden, Maine. Writing in the evenings and on the weekends, he continued to produce short stories and to work on novels.
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April 11, 2023
'Het lijk': 3 sterren
'De ademhalingsmethode': 4 sterren
totaal: 3.5 sterren
'De ademhalingsmethode': 4 sterren
totaal: 3.5 sterren
July 2, 2021
The breathing method - 4.5*
February 27, 2022
Het lijk deed me ergens denken aan “het meisje dat hield van tom gordon”, amber zal vast kunnen begrijpen waarom.
De ademhalingsmethode leek in eerste instantie wat saai, maar niets was minder waar; ik zal de laatste 10 pagina’s niet snel vergeten.
De ademhalingsmethode leek in eerste instantie wat saai, maar niets was minder waar; ik zal de laatste 10 pagina’s niet snel vergeten.
August 22, 2025
Klassieke Stephen King, met schrijver die terugkijkt naar zijn jeugd.
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