Bag of Bones
by Stephen King
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 067102423X
- ISBN 13
- 9780671024239
- Seller
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Olive Hill, Kentucky, United States
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About This Item
Simon & Schuster, Paperback 1999. Nice condition, gently used.
A tale of grief and lost love's enduring bonds, of haunting secrets of the past, and of an innocent child caught in a terrible crossfire.Four years after the sudden death of his wife, forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write, and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the western Maine summerhouse he calls Sara Laughs, Mike reluctantly returns to the lakeside getaway. There, he finds his beloved Yankee town held in the grip of a powerful millionaire, Max Devore, whose vindictive purpose is to take his three-year-old granddaughter, Kyra, away from her widowed young mother, Mattie. As Mike is drawn into Mattie and Kyra's struggle, as he falls in love with both of them, he is also drawn into the mystery of Sara Laughs, now the site of ghostly visitations and escalating terrors. What are the forces that have been unleashed here -- and what do they want of Mike Noonan?It is no secret that King is one of our most mesmerizing storytellers. In Bag of Bones, he proves to be one of our most moving as well. Made into a mini TV series.
732 pages.
A tale of grief and lost love's enduring bonds, of haunting secrets of the past, and of an innocent child caught in a terrible crossfire.Four years after the sudden death of his wife, forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write, and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the western Maine summerhouse he calls Sara Laughs, Mike reluctantly returns to the lakeside getaway. There, he finds his beloved Yankee town held in the grip of a powerful millionaire, Max Devore, whose vindictive purpose is to take his three-year-old granddaughter, Kyra, away from her widowed young mother, Mattie. As Mike is drawn into Mattie and Kyra's struggle, as he falls in love with both of them, he is also drawn into the mystery of Sara Laughs, now the site of ghostly visitations and escalating terrors. What are the forces that have been unleashed here -- and what do they want of Mike Noonan?It is no secret that King is one of our most mesmerizing storytellers. In Bag of Bones, he proves to be one of our most moving as well. Made into a mini TV series.
732 pages.
Synopsis
Bag of Bones is a 1998 novel by Stephen King. Its themes include the trials of the writing process (the main character, Mike Noonan, has writer's block), the power of memory (the ghosts of Noonan's past as well as the ghosts of Sara Laughs, the lakeside house to which he moves) and the ghosts lurking close behind the everyday and the mundane.
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- Bookseller
- Melissa E Anderson (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- K092132
- Title
- Bag of Bones
- Author
- Stephen King
- Format/Binding
- Glued Paperback binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 067102423X
- ISBN 13
- 9780671024239
- Publisher
- Pocket Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1999-06-01
- Keywords
- stephen king, bones, horror, murder, thriller
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction - Horror; Fiction - Thriller; FICTION / Occult; FICTION / Ghost;
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