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Just After Sunset |
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Stephen King |
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| Stephen King’s new collection Just After Sunset is composed of thirteen stories that combine horror and suspense with a rich blend of fantasy and psychological realism. With the exception of “The Cat from Hell”, featuring a satanic cat which was written in the 1970s, all of the stories were written after King’s famous near death experience (a road accident in 1999) and take up themes ranging from unraveling relationships, to aging, physical and mental deterioration, as well as grief and survival guilt. In two stories, “A Very Tight Place” and “The Gingerbread Girl”, the main characters face apparently insurmountable threats to their lives, forcing them to reflect on their own mortality and find the resources and courage to fight their aggressors. “Ayana” is the most charming and touching story in the collection, with the blind heroine working miracles with a kiss and a touch of her hand, and “The Things They Left Behind” is a powerful study of survival guilt in the aftermath of the horrors of 9/11. “The Stationary Bicycle” embarks the reader on at first comical and later absolutely terrifying journey of a man who started an exercise routine to reduce bad cholesterol only to be faced with unforeseen consequences, and in “N.” King shows off his trademark eerie thrills as an obsessive-compulsive psychiatric patient’s irrational reasoning develops into an apocalyptic terror threatening the Maine countryside. Powerful, sophisticated, and awe-inspiringly wicked, Just After Sunset will terrify, thrill, and spell-bind the reader, one story at a time. |
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| Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine, in 1947. He won a scholarship to the University of Maine, and later taught English, while his wife, Tabitha, got her degree. He has written more than forty novels and two hundred short stories. He is the recipient of the 2003 National Book Foundation for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and the Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award for Lifetime Achievement. In 2007 he was inducted as a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America for his story “The Man in the Black Suit”. Among his recent worldwide bestsellers are Duma Key, Lisey’s Story, The Shining, Cell, and Bag of Bones. He lives with his wife, novelist Tabitha King, dividing his tom between Bangor, Maine, and Florida. |
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