Lisey's Story

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Author(s):

Stephen King

First Pub:

2006

Genre(s):

Fantasy; Horror

First Read:

2022

Times Read:

1 time

Rating:

Chapters:

See 19

Part 1 - Bool Hunt

1 - Lisey and Amanda (Everything the Same)

2 - Lisey and The Madman (Darkness Loves Him)

3 - Lisey and The Silver Spade (Wait for the Wind to Change)

4 - Lisey and the Blood-Bool (All the Bad-Gunky)

Part 2 - SOWISA

5 - Lisey and the Long, Long Thursday (Stations of the Bool)

6 - Lisey and the Professor (This Is What It Gets You)

7 - Lisey and The Law (Obsession and The Exhausted Mind)

8 - Lisey and Scott (Under the Yum-Yum Tree)

9 - Lisey and The Black Prince of The Incunks (The Duty of Love)

10 - Lisey and The Arguments Against Insanity (The Good Brother)

11 - Lisey and The Pool (Shhhh - Now You Must Be Still)

12 - Lisey and Greenlawn (The Hollyhocks)

13 - Lisey and Amanda (The Sister Thing)

14 - Lisey and Scott (Babyluv)

15 - Lisey and The Long Boy (Pafko at the Wall)

Part 3 - Lisey's Story

16 - Lisey and The Story Tree (Scott Has His Say)

Internal ID:

3017

Series:

No series

Copyright:

Dedication:

For Tabby

First Sentence:

To the public eye, the spouses of well-known writers are all but invisible, and no one knew it better than Lisey Landon.

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

Then it was silent.

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Added: 01-Apr-2022

Last Updated: 14-Oct-2022

24-Oct-2006

Simon & Schuster

Book on CD

Date Issued:

24-Oct-2006

Format:

Book on CD

Cover Price:

$38.00

Length:

19 hrs 21 min (688 pages)

"Read":

Once

Reading(s):

1) 21 Apr 2022 - 26 Apr 2022

Cover Link(s):

amazon.com

Internal ID:

2494

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster

ISBN:

0-743-55600-3

ISBN-13:

978-0-743-55600-2

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

Mare Winningham - Narration

From amazon.com:

The “haunting... tender, intimate book that makes an epic interior journey” (The New York Times), Lisey’s Story is a literary masterpiece - an extraordinarily moving and haunting portrait of a marriage and its aftermath.

Lisey lost her husband Scott two years ago, after a twenty-five year marriage of profound and sometimes frightening intimacy. Scott was an award-winning, bestselling novelist and a very complicated man. Early in their relationship, before they married, Lisey knew there was a place Scott went—a place that both terrified and healed him, could eat him alive or give him the ideas he needed in order to live. Now it’s Lisey’s turn to face Scott’s demons, to go to that terrifying place known as Boo’ya Moon. What begins as a widow’s effort to sort through the papers of her celebrated husband becomes a nearly fatal journey into the darkness he inhabited.

“Intricate...exhilarating” (The New Yorker), perhaps Stephen King’s most personal and powerful novel ever, Lisey’s Story is about the wellsprings of creativity, the temptations of madness, and the secret language of love. It is a beautiful, “rich portrait of a marriage, and the complicated affection that outlives death” (The Washington Post).

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24-Oct-2006
Simon & Schuster
Book on CD

Author(s)

Stephen King
Birth: 21 Sep 1947 Portland, Maine, USA

Notes:

Stephen Edwin King was born on September 21, 1947 in Portland Maine. His parents were Donald Edwin and Ruth Pillsbury King. Stephen King's father, Donald, went out for cigarettes and never came back. In January 1959 Stephen King and David King, his brother, began publishing their own newspaper named Dave's Rag.

Stephen King went to Lisbon High School in 1962. In 1963 they he and a friend, Chris Chesley, published a 18 short stories called People, Places, and Things - Volume I. Stephen King graduated from high school in 1966 and took a went on to the University of Maine. During his first year at college he finished his first novel entitled The Long Walk. He submitted the novel for publication but it was rejected.

Stephen King sold his first story The Glass Floor for $35.00. Stephen King graduated from the University of Maine in June 1970 with a BA in English. On January 2, 1971, Tabitha Jane Spruce and Stephen King were married. later that same year Stephen King began teaching at Hampden Academy.

In January 1973, Stephen King submitted Carrie to Doubleday and in March, they bought the book. Stephen King has had numerous short stories and novels published. His books have been translated into 33 different languages and have been published in over 35 different countries. He lives in Bangor, Maine with his wife Tabitha.

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