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. Here’s something that’s not.Review of Elevation by Stephen King Fiction Reviews
While the final pages are reminiscent of one of his son Joe Hill’s best short stories (to mention the title would give away too much), there’s a sweetness that feels like something new for King. There’s more than a hint of the 'holiday novella'-so popular in the romance genre-to Elevation, and I imagine many fans would be satisfied if King settled into a late career of one heavy meal and one amuse bouche every year. One of the story’s most gripping moments hinges on the results of a Thanksgiving Day Turkey Trot. But King also has in mind the weight of close-mindedness and prejudice. Weight is the preoccupation of this slim novel, which at first feels like a riff on one of King’s earliest works (written under a pseudonym), Thinner. I read Elevation in less time than it took to watch last year’s movie adaptation of It. But.King has delivered a near-weightless tale. There’s nothing really light about Stephen King.
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