Lisey's Story (Unabridged)
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
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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...exhilarating” (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).
Customer Reviews
Beautiful and horrifying
One of my all time fav Stephen King books….a beautiful and haunting tale of true love and the grief that comes with losing them.
Lisey’s story
A cure for insomnia. Way too much detail. Big disappointment.
Great reading of a great story
Mare Winninham’s brilliant reading of this wonderfully complex story which for me is metafor forhumaniy. We have witnessed the growth of bad gunky in our age and we need, like Lisey and Scott to remember our friends haunted with the gunky are also loved. We need the courage of Lisey and Manda to defend against the bad gunky that threatens us too much. We need the to understand the the bad gunky and infect any of us and be on guard against our own hatred. In some ways I see Stephen King as the Mark Twain of our age.