The characters / Catalog entry
Cary Ripton (Desperation)
Cary Ripton (Desperation) is recorded in 1 distinct story.
Desperation and The Regulators re-use this name in their distinct casts. Their changed families, ages or circumstances do not establish a single individual crossing narratives; retain separate work-scoped identities.
Also recorded as Cary Ripton.
A separate counterpart
The books explicitly change Cary from a 48-year-old pit foreman to a 14-year-old paperboy.
Stories and supporting passages
Desperation
Read the passage Spoilers · Story context
2 The man who hates MSHA is Cary Ripton, pit-foreman of the new Rattlesnake operation. He is forty-eight, balding, sunken-eyed, cynical, in pain more often than not these days, a man who desperately wanted to be a mining engineer but wasn’t up to the math and wound up here instead, running an open-pit.
Desperation and The Regulators re-use this name in their distinct casts. Their changed families, ages or circumstances do not establish a single individual crossing narratives; retain separate work-scoped identities.