FAIRY TALE

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Fairy Tale : The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller
by Stephen King (Author)
Format:Hardback 592 pages
Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint:Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN:9781399705417
Published:6 Sep 2022
Classifications:Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fantasy
Readership:General (US: Trade)
Weight:862g
Dimensions:164 x 242 x 50 (mm)
Pub. Country:United Kingdom
Country of Origin:GB
Tariff Codes:49019900
For sale in: Spain, United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland, Germany, (See full list)
Description
'Fairy Tale is vintage, timeless King, a transporting, terrifying treat' - Guardian'A blazing flash of creativity . . .

King's best book in over a decade' - EsquireLegendary 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 seven, 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 ageing 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.