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Faithful
Stewart O'Nan & Stephen King
Scribner; December 2004
A
fan's notes for the ages, Faithful grew from an email exchange
last summer. Filled with the heady mix of exhilaration and
frustration familiar to all Boston Red Sox fans, Stewart O'Nan
fired off a note to fellow Sox fan, Stephen King, who responded
with his thoughts on Pedro, Nomar, Manny, Mueller, and Theo.
Baseball history has transformed these fans into a "nation"
not to mention the most dedicated, knowledgeable fanbase on
the planet. Stewart O'Nan and Stephen King, proud members
of Red Sox Nation, will chronicle the 2004 baseball season
from spring training to the last game of the season the important
plays, the controversial managerial decisions, the significant
front office moves, and the spectacular finish (whether heartbreaking
or joyous). Attending games together, keeping a running diary
of observations and arguments, and occasionally evoking great
or tragic events in Red Sox history. King and O'Nan will cheer
on their beloved team with the eternal hope that this just
might be the year. If you don't have season ticket box seats
right behind the firstbase dugout, you can't beat Faithful.
From
a Buick 8
Stephen King
Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group; September 2002
The
state police of Troop D. in Statler, Pennsylvania, have kept
the mysterious, vintage Buick Roadmaster caged in Shed B out
in back of the barracks ever since 1979, when Troopers Ennis
Rafferty and Curtis Wilcox answered a call about its driver
gone missing from a gas station just down the road. Mostly
it sleeps (that's one way of putting it, anyway), and over
the years the troop has absorbed its mystery as part of the
background to their work. But even as it sleeps, it breathesinhaling
a little bit of this world, exhaling a little bit of whatever
world it came from until the fateful day when its terrifying
secrets are finally revealed.
Everything's
Eventual
Stephen King
Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group; March 2002
The first
collection of stories Stephen King has published since Nightmares
& Dreamscapes nine years ago, Everything's Eventual includes
one "O Henry Prize" winner, two other award winners,
four stories published by The New Yorker, and "Riding
the Bullet", one of the most appreciated short stories
of King. "Riding the Bullet" is the story of Alan
Parker, who's hitchhiking to see his dying mother but takes
the wrong ride, farther than he ever intended. In "Lunch
at the Gotham Cafe," a sparring couple's contentious
lunch turns very, very bloody when the maitre d' gets out
of sorts. "1408," the audio story in print for the
first time, is about a successful writer whose specialty is
"Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Graveyards" or "Ten
Nights in Ten Haunted Houses," and though Room 1408 at
the Dolphin Hotel doesn't kill him, he won't be writing about
ghosts anymore. And in "That Feeling, You Can Only Say
What It Is in French," terror is de-ja-vu at 16,000 feet.
Whether writing about encounters with the dead, the near dead,
or about the mundane dreads of life, from quitting smoking
to yard sales, Stephen King is at the top of his form in the
fourteen dark tales assembled in Everything's Eventual. Intense,
eerie, and instantly compelling, they announce the stunningly
fertile imagination of perhaps the greatest storyteller of
our time.
(Source:
ETC, Gulshan 1, Dhaka.)
Compiled
by: Sanyat Sattar
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