Fairy tale : a novel / Stephen King.
Publication details: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2022.Description: 577 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781399705424
- 9781399705417
- Horror fiction
- Recluses -- Fiction
- Thought and thinking -- Fiction
- Imagination -- Fiction
- Dogs -- Fiction
- Secrecy -- Fiction
- Good and evil -- Fiction
- Imaginary wars and battles -- Fiction
- Heroes -- Fiction
- Teenagers -- Fiction
- Multiverse -- Fiction
- Older people -- Fiction
- Imaginary places -- Fiction
- 813.6 23/eng/20220902
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Fantasy | KIN | Available | 071022 |
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 Howard Bowditch, a recluse with a big dog in a big house at the top of a big hill. In the backyard is a locked shed from which strange sounds emerge, as if some creature is trying to escape. When Mr. Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie the house, a massive amount of gold, a cassette tape telling a story that is impossible to believe, and a responsibility far too massive for a boy to shoulder. Because within the shed is a portal to another world - one whose denizens are in peril and whose monstrous leaders may destroy their own world, and ours.