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ISBN: 1668002175
ISBN13: 9781668002179

Fairy Tale

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ISBN: 1668002175
ISBN13: 9781668002179
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A read copy, but remains in excellent condition.

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Book Overview

Master storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this #1 New York Times bestselling and spellbinding novel about a young man who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher--for that world or ours.

Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a horrific accident when he was seven, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself--and his dad. When Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from that shed.

Charlie starts doing jobs for Mr. Bowditch and loses his heart to Radar. Then, when Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie a cassette tape telling a story no one would believe. What Bowditch knows, and has kept secret all his long life, is that inside the shed is a portal to another world.

Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
ISBN:
1668002175
ISBN13:
9781668002179
Release Date:
September 2022
Publisher:
Scribner
Length:
608 Pages
Weight:
1.80 lbs.
Dimensions:
1.6″ × 6.2″ × 9.3″
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More by Stephen King

Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Holly , Fairy Tale , Billy Summers , If It Bleeds , The Institute , Elevation , The Outsider , Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King ), and the Bill Hodges trilogy : End of Watch , Finders Keepers , and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower , It , Pet Sematary , Doctor Sleep , and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time . He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King .

Customer Reviews

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Disappointed 😞

Have several Stephen King's novels, which were hard to put down. This one is surprisingly boring. After ten chapters into reading it, I shelved it.

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Eye is my favorite

This was my first ever SK ,and wow did he make me a huge fan of his work! Can’t wait to read more.

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One of my favorite books ever!

This became one of my top 5 favorite books before I was even halfway through with it. Reading this made me feel the way Bastian felt when he was reading The Never Ending Story. I will read this again and again and again. I need another copy to send to my sister-in-law. I know she'll love it too.

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Fairy Tale was worth the wait!!!

When all hope is lost, you can count on Stephen King to make a simple Fairy Tale into an exciting example of a beautiful coming of age story that made my soul very happy. I have read this book twice and each time it gets better and better. I loved it!!!

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Stephen King

Awesome read Stephen King is the best

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Wasn’t his best performance n my opinion

I love SK and voraciously read anything he puts out. I loved the first part of this story- but the fairytale part was a bit too rushed, lacking in details and context, and was a bit anticlimactic. I felt cheated, knowing what SK is capable of

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