![]() Three years later, in the wake of a school shooting whose perpetrator had a copy of Rage in his locker, King withdrew the novel from publication, incidentally rendering Rage the only book-length King novel out of print. In his foreword to the re-released omnibus edition of The Bachman Books, King hints at the unease he has with Rage, and with the young man – King was still in high school when Rage was begun – who wrote it. ![]() What once might have seemed like a disturbing if understandable idle fantasy has, in the years since Rage was first published, become an increasingly tragic reality. ![]() After being expelled from school for assaulting his shop teacher, Charlie Decker, the unstable and perhaps unreliable narrator of Rage, shoots his math teacher and takes his classroom hostage. ![]()
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