THE NEEDLE

by Francis King ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 1, 1976

An insidious, inverted, psychosexual horror story in which the needle--for his insulin injections--assures the symbiotic dependence of Bob Ambler on his seven-year-older sister Lorna. She's a doctor (a physician very slow to heal herself or even suspect all that's wrong with him) who as a girl had given him the injections he shirked from giving himself. Now after three years he's living with her again but then there are all those silences, those hiatuses in his life, she wonders about. And the locked box in his room with her bracelet and her sanitary napkins; and the bloodied shirt in a bag; and his current disappearance while those closest to her (another woman doctor with questionable desires; her daughter by a much older, now dead, husband) have been suggesting just what you've been thinking. A clever, unpleasant book--but scrupulously written to give it that extra flick of the loose wrist and wince of pathological menace.

Pub Date: Sept. 1, 1976

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Mason/Charter

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1976

Categories: FICTION