Front Cover
Core Fiction Hardcover
Novel
1977
The Shining
Doubleday
Synopsis
The Shining: Jack Torrance accepts a winter caretaker job at the isolated Overlook Hotel and moves there with his wife Wendy and young son Danny. Danny's psychic ability, called the shining, reveals the hotel's violent history and the danger gathering around his father. As winter closes the roads, the Overlook intensifies Jack's anger and addiction, forcing the family into a struggle for survival.
Verification Summary
Verified Edition
Copyright and gutter photographs confirm that this is not the 1977 first trade printing. The copyright page lacks the required First Edition statement and the photographed gutter code is not R49, the first-printing code identified in the first-edition guide. ISBN 0-385-12167-9 is present. Classification as a Doubleday Book Club Edition, printing not stated, is confirmed.