Fairy tale : a novel / Stephen King.
Material type: TextPublisher: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: 577 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781399705424; 9781399705417Subject(s): Recluses -- Fiction | Thought and thinking -- Fiction | Imagination -- Fiction | Dogs -- Fiction | Secrecy -- Fiction | Good and evil -- Fiction | Imaginary wars and battles -- Fiction | Heroes -- Fiction | Teenagers -- Fiction | Multiverse -- Fiction | Older people -- Fiction | Imaginary places -- FictionGenre/Form: Fantasy fiction. | Paranormal fiction. DDC classification: 813.6 Summary: 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 ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself - and his dad. Then, when Charlie is seventeen, he meets Howard Bowditch, a recluse with a big dog in a big house at the top of a big hill. In the backyard is a locked shed from which strange sounds emerge, as if some creature is trying to escape. When Mr. Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie the house, a massive amount of gold, a cassette tape telling a story that is impossible to believe, and a responsibility far too massive for a boy to shoulder. Because within the shed is a portal to another world - one whose denizens are in peril and whose monstrous leaders may destroy their own world, and ours.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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 ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself - and his dad. Then, when Charlie is seventeen, he meets Howard Bowditch, a recluse with a big dog in a big house at the top of a big hill. In the backyard is a locked shed from which strange sounds emerge, as if some creature is trying to escape. When Mr. Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie the house, a massive amount of gold, a cassette tape telling a story that is impossible to believe, and a responsibility far too massive for a boy to shoulder. Because within the shed is a portal to another world - one whose denizens are in peril and whose monstrous leaders may destroy their own world, and ours.
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