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020			_a9781399705455
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041			_aeng
050			_aPS3561.I483 _bF35 2023
100			_aKing, Stephen _d1947- _911316 _eauthor
245			_aFairy tale _c/ Stephen King.
260			_aLondon : _bHodder & Stoughton, _c2023.
300			_a577, 6 pages ; _billustrations ; _c20 cm.
520			_aLegendary 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 that 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. When Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her aging 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 odd 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 in which good is pitted against overwhelming evil, and a heroic boy--and his dog--must lead the battle. Early in the pandemic, King asked himself, "What could you write that would make you happy? As if my imagination had been waiting for the question to be asked, I saw a vast deserted city--deserted but alive. I saw the empty streets, the haunted buildings, a gargoyle head lying overturned in the street. I saw smashed statues (of what I didn't know, but I eventually found out). I saw a huge, sprawling palace with glass towers so high their tips pierced the clouds. Those images released the story I wanted to tell.
650		0	_aHeroes _vFiction _924127
650		0	_aTeenage boys _vFiction _924128
650		0	_aOlder men _vFiction _924129
650		0	_aMultiverse _vFiction _924130
650		0	_aGood and evil _vFiction _924131
650		0	_aImaginary places _vFiction _924132
650		0	_aImaginary wars and battles _vFiction _924133
655		0	_aFantasy fiction _922510
655		0	_aParanormal fiction _922925
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