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The haunting tender, intimate book that makes an epic interior journey (The New York Times), Lisey s Story is a literary masterpiece an extraordinarily moving and haunting portrait of a marriage and its aftermath. Lisey lost her husband Scott two years ago, after a twenty-five year marriage of profound and sometimes frightening intimacy. Scott was an award-winning, bestselling novelist and a very complicated man. Early in their relationship, before they married, 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, to go to that terrifying place known as 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. Intricate...Exhilirating (The New Yorker), perhaps Stephen King s most personal and powerful novel ever, Lisey s Story is about the wellsprings of creativity, the temptations of madness, and the secret language of love. It is a beautiful, rich portrait of a marriage, and the complicated affection that outlives death (The Washington Post).

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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

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