But, too old to pass the driver's eye examination now, he puts Christine up for sale. Nonetheless LeBay has held on to the car for two decades. And like any artisan of merit, he cherishes that which he works on, in this case a 1958 Plymouth Fury named Christine.Ĭhristine belonged to Roland LeBay, a malcontent who was involved in an accident in which both his wife and child perished.
Then there is the beautiful Leigh Cabot who meets Arnie first and plays the princess to his frog, although by all rights she should be Dennis's girl.īesides being the timid soul who won the lady, Arnie is also an auto mechanic, a master craftsman in the true sense of the word.
His best friend is Dennis Guilder, even though Dennis is the all-American Arnie never could be. There is Arnie Cunningham, the bookish, bullied, introverted high school student. ''Christine'' appears to be formed along the classic lines of a triangle. ''Trucks'' might also have been the inspiration for Mr. King made those vehicles - all vehicles - live not only on the page but in my imagination. Among them was ''Trucks,'' in which the products of Detroit's auto industry were anthropomorphized and portrayed as barbaric, homicidal and utterly antihuman. SEVERAL years ago Stephen King published ''Night Shift,'' a collection of short stories that had appeared in magazines before his debut as a novelist.
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