Torrance's 'Shining' book published

The novel written by Jack Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining has been published as a spoof book.

The 1980 horror film, based on the book by Stephen King, starred Jack Nicholson as a frustrated writer who retreats to a secluded hotel to complete his work. As he slowly descends into madness, his wife Wendy discovers that his manuscript consists only of the words "All Work And No Play Makes Jack A Dull Boy".

New York artist Phil Buehler has now published a book credited to Torrance, which repeats the words for 80 pages with adjusted formatting on each.

A review of the work, titled All Work And No Play Makes Jack A Dull Boy, said: "One is forced to consider the author, heroically pitting himself against the Sisyphusean sentence. It's that metatextual struggle of Man vs. Typewriter that gives this book its spellbinding power.

"Some will dismiss it as simplistic; that's like dismissing a Pollack canvas as mere splatters of paint."