With his latest novel, King proves that he’s willing to keep evolving.
That’s why it’s a little surprising that Stephen King, who’s been an icon of his medium for half a century, has progressed from offering what could generously be described as some questionable depictions of neurodivergent characters to creating one of the most nuanced, well-realized autistic characters in literature culminating in his latest, “Holly.”
In King’s epic “The Stand” , Tom Cullen, one of a coalition of survivors of a global pandemic, is clearly written as developmentally disabled in some way, although both his small-town roots and the time in which the book was written limit the specifics offered about what was then called “slow.”Cullen is a gentle giant in the tradition of Lennie Small in “Of Mice and Men,” and anticipates genre characters like Hodor in George R.R.
Holly’s antagonists in the novel are a particularly chilling pair of King creations, elderly married college professors Roddy and Emily Harris, who have spent years snatching unfortunates out of a local park and cannibalizing them, bound to crackpot theories that consuming other humans will stave off their physical and mental degeneration.
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