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Fairy tale : a novel / Stephen King.

ISBN: 1668002175
ISBN: 9781668002179
Physical Description: 599 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York : Scribner, an imprint of Simon &amp; Schuster, 2022.
Copyright: &copy;2022

King, Stephen, 1947- (author.).

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. 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 jobs for Mr. Bowditch and loses his heart to Radar. Then, when Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie an audio 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?” from the publisher