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That-Requirement-285 t1_j1pfcrc wrote

Possible that Margaret, who is a religious fanatic who abuses her daughter, is an unreliable narrator who lied about Carrie’s father dying. Also possible that, since this is Stephen King’s first book, he was still getting used to both writing and writing on cocaine.

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HugoNebula t1_j1pl2sk wrote

King didn't use cocaine until the writing of The Stand, and had been writing short fiction for fourteen years by the time Carrie was published, seven or eight of them professionally published.

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