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Name: The Auctioneer

Author: Joan Samson
Year: 1975
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Horror, Fiction, Thriller, Classic

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ISBNs:
9781948405072
9781933618197
1948405075
1933618191

Harrowing tensions explode in a series of events that could happen anywhere, to anyone, just as they do to John Moore--whose days of freedom run out, who is stripped of his possessions, his courage, and his hopes, by the ominous presence of an insidious stranger impossible to resist.

Published to wide acclaim in 1976, but almost neglected since then, The Auctioneer is a bona fide classic of American literature. The story of John Moore, his wife Mim, and his mother, it is a gripping tale of greed in a small town being quietly overrun by auctioneer Perly Dunsmore. Acclaimed by writers including Stephen King, and an influence on King's Needful Things, The Auctioneer is here reprinted for the first time in thirty years.