About This Title:
Lisey's Story
a novel by Stephen King
Publisher: Scribner
Format: Oversized Mass Market Paperback
Publication Date: June 2007
Retail Price: $9.99
About the Book:
Lisey Debusher Landon lost her husband Scott two years ago, after a twenty five
year marriage of the most profound and sometimes frightening intimacy. Lisey
knew there was a place Scott went—a place that both terrified and healed
him, could eat him alive or give him the ideas he needed in order to live. Now
it's Lisey's turn to face Scott's demons, Lisey's turn to go to Boo'ya Moon.
What begins as a widow's effort to sort through the papers of her celebrated
husband becomes a nearly fatal journey into the darkness he inhabited.
Possibly King's most ambitious and accomplished book ever, Lisey's Story
is a profoundly moving and disturbing novel about a widow coping with the loss
of her writer husband. It's a grand, ambitious and layered book, with unrelenting
emotional power. It's a book for the ages—exploring the dark secrets of
the ones we love, and the very wellsprings of creativity.
Advanced Praise:
"Lisey's Story is a wondrous novel of marriage, a love
story steeped in strength and tenderness, and cast with the most vivid, touching
and believable characters in recent literature. I came to adore Lisey Landon
and her sisters, I ached for Scott and all he'd been through, and when I finally
reached the bittersweet and heartfelt conclusion, my first thought was that
I wanted to start over again from the beginning, for it felt as if I were saying
good-bye to old friends. This is Stephen King at his finest and most generous,
a dazzling novel that you'll thank yourself for reading long after the final
page is turned."
—Nicholas Sparks, author of The Notebook
"In Lisey's Story, Stephen King makes bold, brilliant use of his satanic
storytelling gift, his angelic ear for language, and above all his incomparable
ability to find the epic in the ordinary, to present us with the bloody and
fabulous tale of an ordinary marriage. In his hands the long, passionate union
of Scott and Lisey Landon--of any long-lived marriage, by implication--becomes
a fantastic kingdom, with its own geography and language, its dark and stirring
chronicle of heroes and monsters, its tragedies, griefs and glories. King has
been getting me to look at the world with terror and wonder since I was fifteen
years old, and I have never been more persuaded than by this book of his greatness."
—Michael Chabon, author of The Final Solution: A Story of Detection
and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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