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Cujo is a two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard and the best friend that ten-year-old Brett Camber ever had. One day, Cujo pursues a rabbit into a bolt-hole and gets bitten by a rabid bat. Suddenly, the once-friendly St. Bernard turns into a killer. Donna Trenton's husband is in New York trying to contain a disastrous ad campaign. Feeling abandoned by her workaholic husband, who is frequently out of town, Donna Trenton embarks on an affair with a local handyman. Left to fend for herself, she takes her ailing Pinto to Joe Cambers' garage for repairs--only to be trapped with her son Tad in the sweltering car by the monstrous dog. ** ### Amazon.com Review *Cujo* is so well-paced and scary that people tend to read it quickly, so they mostly remember the scene of the mother and son trapped in the hot Pinto and threatened by the rabid Cujo, forgetting the multifaceted story in which that scene is embedded. This is definitely a novel that rewards re-reading. When you read it again, you can pay more attention to the theme of country folk vs. city folk; the parallel marriage conflicts of the Cambers vs. the Trentons; the poignancy of the amiable St. Bernard (yes, the breed choice is just right) infected by a brain-destroying virus that makes it into a monster; and the way the "daylight burial" of the failed ad campaign is reflected in the sunlit Pinto that becomes a coffin. And how significant it is that this horror tale is *not* supernatural: it's as real as junk food, a failing marriage, a broken-down car, or a fatal virus. ### Review He builds up the suspense, holds back the dynamite until you're screaming for it, and then lets you have it. --Minneapolis Tribune It grabs you and holds you and won't let go...excruciating suspense...a genuine page-turner. --Chattanooga Times