Time progresses quite quickly for a while as the story gets set. He has a run in with Ed’s wife Helen who has been badly beaten by her husband after she signed a pro-choice related petition. We move forward in time a few months to where Ralph is now a widower. He is behaving aggressively and swearing obscenely at a driver he accuses of involvement in transporting fetal tissue from abortions. A retiree who runs into his good-natured acquaintance Ed Deepneau at the local airfield. Insomnia takes place in Stephen King’s multiverse in the fictional town of Derry, Maine. In his memoir, On Writing, King states that Insomnia and Rose Madder are “stiff, trying-too-hard novels.” Perhaps, a little, but it has always been a favourite of mine though I must admit that may be due in part to it’s heavy Dark Tower connection. Despite it’s popularity, King himself has been critical of Insomnia.
Insomnia was a popular book with critics, and was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award in 1994 though lost out to Nancy Holder’s Dead in the Water. Like many King novels, its setting is the fictional town of Derry, Maine, but it also includes strong connections to the series The Dark Tower. Insomnia is a 1994 horror/fantasy novel by American writer Stephen King.
