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<p>A STUNNING NEW NOVEL FROM ONE OF THE BEST-SELLING AUTHORS OF ALL TIME!<br></p><p>Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.<br></p><p><em>"I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts. That combo made Hard Case Crime the perfect venue for this book, which is one of my favorites. I also loved the paperbacks I grew up with as a kid, and for that reason, we’re going to hold off on e-publishing this one for the time being. Joyland will be coming out in paperback, and folks who want to read it will have to buy the actual book."</em> – Stephen King</p>Amazon.com Review<p>An Amazon Best Book of the Month, June 2013: What a smart, sweet, spooky, sexy gem of a story. In this one-off for the Hard Case Crime publishing imprint, King has found yet another outlet and format (print only, a zippy 280 pages) to suit his considerable talents. All are on full display here in the story of Devon Jones--"a twenty-one-year-old virgin with literary aspirations … and a broken heart"--who spends the summer of 1973 at Joyland amusement park in North Carolina. Devon makes new pals, proves himself to the hard-core carny workers, saves a girl’s life, befriends a dying boy (who has a secret gift), and falls for the boy’s protective, beautiful mother. The first half of the story is sweet and nostalgic, with modest hints of menace to come. (Think: “The Body,” King’s novella that became the film Stand By Me.) Devon learns to “sell fun” and “wear the fur” (carny-speak for dressing as Howie the Happy Hound, the park mascot), but he also learns about the woman who had been killed in the Funhouse, whose ghost still haunts Joyland. King has fun with the carny lingo--most of it researched and real, some of it invented. (The Ferris wheel, for example, is the chump-hoister.) The second half gets spookier, spinning into a full-on murder mystery--but also a love story, and a coming-of-age-story, with some supernatural fun woven in. More than a trifecta, this is King at his narrative and nostalgic best. A single-session tale to savor some summer afternoon. And then try not to keep thinking back on it. <em>--Neal Thompson</em></p>Review<p>"This one’s a must for King fans and may also attract YA readers." – <em>Library Journal</em><br></p><p>"...period murder mystery with a heart...King brings his usual finesse to this tale’s mystery elements" – <em>Publishers Weekly</em><br></p><p>“Undeniable…charm [and] aching nostalgia…[JOYLAND] reads like a heartfelt memoir and might be King’s gentlest book, a canny channeling of the inner peace one can find within outer tumult.” – <em>Booklist</em><br></p><p>"Wrapped in a gloriously pulpy cover, <em>Joyland</em> is a coming-of-age story set in 1973 at a North Carolina amusement park -- creepy! -- that's haunted by a murderer." – <em>Time Magazine</em><br></p><p>"Stephen King's carny-saturated <em>Joyland</em> evokes the ghosts of summers past -- literally." – <em>*New York Magazine<br></em></p><p><em>“<em>Joyland</em>, by Stephen King (Hard Case Crime, June). An old-school, pulpy paperback ghost story set in a North Carolina amusement park.” – <em>*Departures Magazine<br></em></em></p><p><em><em>“King's latest thriller, a PG-13 pulp paperback crime novel takes place at a remote carny park where college kid Devin is desperate to see the ghost of a girl whose murderer might still be<br>lurking around the hot dog stands.” – <em>Cosmopolitan Magazine</em><br></em></em></p><p><em><em>"From horror authority Stephen King comes some hard-boiled action, with all the elements of a good crime novel—including the early ’70s, southern secrets, carnivals, and a meddling college kid." – <em>The Daily Muse</em><br></em></em></p><p><em><em>"If you’re a King fan you may want to set this on your wishlist " –<em> Bookmuch</em> <br></em></em></p><p><em><em>“It’s good to have a book like this now – simple, sweet, and not a little scary – to remind us that among the prequels and sequels, the epics and the TV miniseries, Stephen King can still spin one hell of a little yarn.” “As usual, King slips in and out of genre effortlessly, but it’s gratifying that at the core of <em>Joyland</em> exists a story worthy of being called a Hard Case Crime.” “Misdirection and red herrings abound, delightfully, and the weather-ravaged denouement could play out as the conclusion to a Donald Westlake or Lawrence Block novel.” – <em>FEARnet <em><br> <br>"Red meat for any Stephen King fan." – </em>TalkStephenKing.com <em><br> <br>“This is a Stephen King novel that you can start on your vacation and actually finish before the flight home.” – </em>Men’s Health</em>, Selected By Amazon <br> <em><br></em></em></em></p><p><em><em><em>"...the book...features some of King's most graceful writing...ruminative, amused, digressive, marvelously unaffected, and finally, devastatingly sad." – <em>Entertainment Weekly</em><br> <em></em></em></em></em></p></br></br></br></br></br></br></br></br></br></br></br></br></br></br></br></br></br></br></br>
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| Author: | Stephen King |
|---|---|
| Publication Year: | 2012 |
| ISBN: | 1781162646 |
| Language: | other |
| File Size: | 1.9152 |
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| Price: | FREE |
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