num_pages: 188
description: While on holiday, Scott Carey is exposed to a cloud of radioactive spray shortly after he accidentally ingests insecticide. The radioactivity acts as a catalyst for the bug spray, causing his body to shrink at a rate of approximately 1/7 of an inch per day. A few weeks later, Carey can no longer deny the truth: not only is he losing weight, he is also shorter than he was and deduces, to his dismay, that his body will continue to shrink.
language: English
title: THE SHRINKING MAN
titlecomplete: THE SHRINKING MAN (filmed as The Incredible Shrinking Man)
characters: Scott Carey
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, American, Adventure, Thriller, Horror, Science Fiction Fantasy, Classics, Novels, Fantasy
ratings_count: 8096
publisher: Bantam Books