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An edition of Lisey's Story (1768)

Lisey's Story

printing (3)
  • 3.50 ·
  • 12 Ratings
  • 157 Want to read
  • 5 Currently reading
  • 24 Have read

Perhaps Stephen King's most personal and powerful novel to date, Lisey's Story is a beautifully textured suspense narrative about the wellsprings of creativity, the tempt'"ons of madness and the secret language of love.

'To the public eye, the spouses of well- known writers are all but invisible, and no one knew it better than Lisey Landon.' That is until the maddeningly humid, maddeningly muggy day her husband Scott, a celebrated, award-winning novelist, inaugurated the site of a new library in Nashville. The day that started with a broken toothglass...

Years later, Lisey is ruminating on their marriage of twenty-five years, a marriage of profound, sometimes frightening intimacy. Lisey has always known there was a dark place where her husband ventured to face his demons. Boo'ya Moon is what Scott called it; a realm that both terrified and healed him, that could eat him alive or give him the ideas he needed to write and live.

Now it's Lisey's turn to face her husband's demons. And what begins as a widow's effort to sort through her husband's effects becomes a perilous journey into the heart of darkness.
--front flap

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Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Language
English
Pages
563

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Cover of: La historia de Lisey
La historia de Lisey
2007, Círculo de Lectores
hardcover in Spanish - printing (1)
Cover of: Lisey's Story
Lisey's Story: A Novel
2007 July, Pocket Books
Mass Market Paperback in English - Pocket Books Premium edition (1)
Cover of: История Лизи
История Лизи
2007, ACT
Hardcover in Russian
Cover of: Lisey's Story
Lisey's Story
2007, Hodder
Mass Market Paperback in English - Hodder paperback (1)
Cover of: Lisey's Story
Lisey's Story
2006, Hodder & Stoughton
Hardcover in English - printing (3)
Cover of: Historia Lisey
Historia Lisey
2006, Proszynski I S-Ka
Cover of: Lisey's Story
Lisey's Story
2006, Scribner
Hardcover in English - (1)
Cover of: Love
Love
2006, Heyne Verlag
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Cover of: Lisey's Story
Lisey's Story: A Novel
2000-07, Pocket Books
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Edition Notes

UK

Copyright Date
2006

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
562p.
Number of pages
563
Dimensions
9.3 x 6.1 x 2 inches
Weight
2.2 pounds

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL9874237M
ISBN 10
0340898933
ISBN 13
9780340898932
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Library Thing
708944
Goodreads
55975314

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Lisey's Story is a novel by American writer Stephen King that combines elements of psychological horror and romance. The novel was released on October 24, 2006. It won the 2006 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel, and was nominated for the World Fantasy Award in 2007. An early excerpt from the novel, a short story titled "Lisey and the Madman", was published in McSweeney’s Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories (2004), and was nominated for the 2004 Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction. King has stated that this is his favorite of the novels he has written.

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To the public eye, the spouses of well-known writers are all but invisible, and no one knew it better than Lisey Landon.
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