Stephen King - Lisey's Story - Fall 06
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Stephen King - Lisey's Story - Fall 06
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.
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"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
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

At 500+ pages, this is a novella for King.
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"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."
Wow! Quite a statement in this day-and-age of ever-present accusations of a washed-up, never-as-good-as-he-was-in-the-eighties King.
Wow! Quite a statement in this day-and-age of ever-present accusations of a washed-up, never-as-good-as-he-was-in-the-eighties King.
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Interesting. A few years back Stephen King published a short story with this character in one of those McSweeney's anthologys. I'm pretty sure it was called 'Lisey and the Madman'.
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Sounds great, but...Boo'ya Moon?
A King novel with a character who is a writer? Never saw that coming.
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Originally Posted by Michael Corvin
A King novel with a character who is a writer? Never saw that coming. 

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Amazon's got it for $17.64: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743289412/
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Originally Posted by jmj713
Amazon's got it for $17.64: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0743289412/
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I'll pick it up from Sam's near my house for around $16.00. His books are the only reason I have a Sam's Club card.
I got burned at Overstock with the way they packed my Calvin and Hobbes set. Found it at Sam's for a little cheaper the next day. Oh well.
I got burned at Overstock with the way they packed my Calvin and Hobbes set. Found it at Sam's for a little cheaper the next day. Oh well.
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Originally Posted by OwlAtHome
QPB has a gift edition available:

Hopefully it will be available as an enrollment, right now it's $24.95.

Hopefully it will be available as an enrollment, right now it's $24.95.
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Just got a review copy of this, and I'm not even excited by the prospect of reading it. Sigh. I used to salivate over the prospect of a new King book.
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Originally Posted by Jason Bovberg
Just got a review copy of this, and I'm not even excited by the prospect of reading it. Sigh. I used to salivate over the prospect of a new King book.
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Just got a review copy of this, and I'm not even excited by the prospect of reading it. Sigh. I used to salivate over the prospect of a new King book.
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Yeah, Jennifer Aniston's Ass.





