BOOK: Fairy Tale - Stephen King - Hardcover

-Titulo Original : Fairy Tale

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Product Description Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy 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 hit-and-run 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 it. 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. King s storytelling in Fairy Tale soars. This is a magnificent and terrifying tale in which good is pitted against overwhelming evil, and a heroic boy and his dog must lead the battle. Early in the Pandemic, King asked himself: What could you write that would make you happy? As if my imagination had been waiting for the question to be asked, I saw a vast deserted city deserted but alive. I saw the empty streets, the haunted buildings, a gargoyle head lying overturned in the street. I saw smashed statues (of what I didn t know, but I eventually found out). I saw a huge, sprawling palace with glass towers so high their tips pierced the clouds. Those images released the story I wanted to tell. ELBAZARDIGITAL**** Review An ELBAZARDIGITAL Best Book of September 2022: Fairy Tale s protagonist Charlie Reade joins the ranks of King s best characters like Gordie Lachance from The Body (which inspired the movie Stand By Me), or Roland Deschain from The Dark Tower. From the beginning, Charlie warns that the story he s about to tell is unbelievable, and it is. But, as is his way, King somehow makes us want to believe in this tale of a curmudgeonly neighbor with dangerous secrets, the siren song of glittering gold, a parallel world ruled by an unspeakable monster, a child-eating giant who keeps watch over a castle, and a dog who has lived more than one lifetime. Fairy Tale is the perfect blend of fantasy, coming-of-age, friendship, and magic it s good versus evil, a boy and his dog on a perilous quest, it s Stephen King doing what he does best: giving us a story that sets our imagination on fire. Seira Wilson, ELBAZARDIGITAL Editor Review Praise for Fairy Tale King has said on various occasions that Fairy Tale was written while in the depths of the pandemic and the Trump presidency, when he needed to write a book he himself would enjoy. The experiment is a success. Fairy Tale arrives just in the nick of time for those of us ready for some old fashioned escapism. The Portland Press Herald You know it s going to be a rich season of reading in Chicago when even the new Stephen King is set in Chicago. Or rather, a portal to the underworld is found outside Chicago. Either way, eventually you ll look up and notice: The world seems new again... Stephen King s lovely Fairy Tale (a mere 600 pages, modest by King standards) is not scary, but as a fable about an Illinois teenager gifted the key to a menacing underworld, it captures the creeping suspense of childhood classics, not to mention the decay of suburbia. (Its vintage-style illustrations don t hurt, either.) The Chicago Tribune Teenage hero Charlie Reade embarks on a fantastical journey in the horror authors new novel... an enjoyable journey into the kind of realm King seemed to have abandoned some time ago. Clark Collis, Entertainment Weekly Fairy Tale is Stephen King s most vivid exploration of the raw power of stories...ambiti