MOON
By James Herbert
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Date of Publication |
1985 |
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Publisher |
New English Library |
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Original cost of hardback first edition |
£9.95 |
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International Standard Book Number (ISBN) |
0 450 06088 8 |
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Original first print run (where known) |
Hardback - 15,000- Paperback - 350,000 |
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Name of hero in the book |
Jonathan Childes |
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Opening line of the book |
"The boy had stopped crying." |
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General description of the dust cover |
Cover illustration is uncredited. Story outline on front flap of the dust cover. Author photograph on the rear flap is the one by Trevor Leighton reused from Domain. This is then followed by one paragraph giving details about the author. |
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Number of pages and chapter details |
Story runs from page 5 to page 272. The book starts with a short prologue entitled "Before" and then each chapter is unnumbered or untitled but simply has an illustration of a moon appearing from behind a dark cloud. Bizarrely, one chapter is numbered as "26" leading to the conclusion that the chapters were originally numbered but it was decided to remove the numbers before publication and this was left numbered in error as this is the 26th chapter. In point of fact there are actually 56 chapters although some are incredibly short, for example one only contains two words and another only contains three words. |
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Roger's Review |
I found this hard to get into and it took me a couple of weeks to eventually read it. Still a good and thrilling book but not as good as James Herbert's other ones and certainly a disappointment after the fantastic 'Domain' but some good horror and a surprise ending that is repeated in a later book - but I won't tell you which one. 5 out of 10. |
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