Waterstones Exclusive Edition with transcript from Cheltenham Literature Festival event
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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 their 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 ten,and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself - and his dad.
Then,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 about another world than ours,in which good is pitted against overwhelming evil,and a heroic boy - and his dog - must lead the battle.
Publisher: Hodder & StoughtonISBN: 9781399727884Number of pages: 608Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
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'There is a splendid climactic battle...King's delight in the world he has created is infectious and there's much to revel in here.'- The Daily Telegraph
'With ogres and castles,maidens and pots of gold,this is a fairy story through-and-through. Because it's Stephen King's,it's a Once-Upon-A-Time tale like no other.'- The Daily Mail
Stephen King
We celebrate the author known to many as the father of modern horror. For a generation of readers,Stephen King is the voice of the underbelly of small-town America,having made his name as the author of cult classics (with an equally strong legacy of film adaptations) including Carrie,The Shining,The Green Mile,The Stand,Pet Sematary,IT,Under the DomeandThe Tommyknockers. If there's an author who knows how to mine the dark recesses of the human imagination,it's King.
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