He doesn’t want to go through hospital test or various medical experiments, so he just embraces his inevitable downfall. Scott goes to a doctor who tells him there’s nothing he can do, and Scott just seems to accept it. Not mass – is almost presented as secondary as a subplot. The supernatural element of the novel – where Scott appears to be losing weight, It’s about how opinions can change, and communities can grow closer.
It’s a surprisingly uplifting plot because it’s about a group of people resolving their tensions by evolving beyond their own beliefs. How can he help them if she won’t accept his friendship? It seems that no matter what Scott does or says, he can’t seem to get her to like him. The only problem is Deirdre doesn’t like him and tells him to stay away from her wife. When Scott publicly defends them against a homophobic bully in the town, he gets sucked into the ugly conflict that has divided the town. Castle Rock is a predominantly Republican state – one of the characters even says, “The county went for Trump three-to-one in ’16”, so for the two married women (Deirdre McComb and Missy Donaldson) in the neighbourhood it’s “a deal-breaker for lots of folks”. The story takes place in the town of Castle Rock, Maine, where many of King’s previous works have taken place. Regular King readers will know that this is very similar to the plot line of his 1984 novel Thinner(published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman) but on a less drastic scale.
He looks exactly the same – a 42-year-old man who is about 230 pounds – but every time he steps on the scale the number drops. But what really caught me off guard is that this story is weirdly…uplifting? This is an unusual outcome for a King novel, but I must admit I do like the change.Įlevation follows the story of Scott who is rapidly losing weight with no change to his physical appearance.
For a start, the novel is less than 300 pages long perhaps novella is a more appropriate term for it. Stephen King’s new novel, Elevation, is not what I was expecting.
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