Both are trying to launch a new restaurant, but the people of Castle Rock want no part of a gay married couple, and the place is in trouble. One of the women is friendly the other, cold as ice. Scott is engaged in a low grade, but escalating battle with the lesbians next door whose dog regularly drops his business on Scott’s lawn. The thin plot is, effectively, just a way for King to delve further into his perfectly drawn snapshots of small-town America, given particular resonance here by the references to the current Presidency. He mostly just wants someone else to know, and he trusts Doctor Bob Ellis.Įlevation never explores why the weight loss happened in the first place or indeed encourages anything more than faint interest as to what will occur when Scott weighs nothing, no longer tethered to earth by gravity.
Scott doesn’t want to be poked and prodded. He weighs the same in his clothes and out of them, no matter how heavy they are.
There are a couple of other odd things, too. In Castle Rock, Maine, Scott Carey faces a mysterious illness that causes bizarre effects on his body and makes him rapidly lose weight, even if he appears healthy on the outside.
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