{"product_id":"book-at3z","title":"The Stand","description":"This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides-or are chosen. A world in which good rides on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail-and the worst nightmares of evil are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the dark man.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1978 Stephen King published \u003ci\u003eThe Stand\u003c\/i\u003e, the novel that is now considered to be one of his finest works. But as it was first published, \u003ci\u003eThe Stand\u003c\/i\u003e was incomplete, since more than 150,000 words had been cut from the original manuscript.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow Stephen King's apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil has been restored to its entirety. \u003ci\u003eThe Stand\u003c\/i\u003e : \u003ci\u003eThe Complete And Uncut Edition\u003c\/i\u003e includes more than five hundred pages of material previously deleted, along with new material that King added as he reworked the manuscript for a new generation. It gives us new characters and endows familiar ones with new depths. It has a new beginning and a new ending. What emerges is a gripping work with the scope and moral complexity of a true epic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor hundreds of thousands of fans who read \u003ci\u003eThe Stand\u003c\/i\u003e in its original version and wanted more, this new edition is Stephen King's gift. And those who are reading \u003ci\u003eThe Stand\u003c\/i\u003e for the first time will discover a triumphant and eerily plausible work of the imagination that takes on the issues that will determine our survival.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCover artwork  ©2020 CBS Interactive Inc.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49399455809840,"sku":"BDat3z","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/at3z-Square-cover.jpg?v=1776284554","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-at3z","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}