03068cam a2200313 4500 605079615 TxAuBib 20220910120000.0 ||||||s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781797145297 1797145290 08187587-23a3-46ac-98dc-34dc2152a0ae OverDrive (Reserve ID) 8740733 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib King, Stephen, 1947- Fairy Tale [Sunflower eLibrary Audiobook]. Simon & Schuster Audio, 2022. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 662MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 662MB. HTML:<b>Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for that world or ours.</b><br /> 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.<br /> <br /> Charlie starts doing jobs for Mr. Bowditch and loses his heart to Radar. Then, when Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie a cassette 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.<br /> <br /> King's storytelling in <i>Fairy Tale</i> 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.<br /> <br /> Early in the Pandemic, King asked himself: "What could you write that would make you happy?"<br /> <br /> "As if my imagination had been waiting for the question to be asked, I saw a vast deserted city—deserted but alive. I saw the empty streets, the haunted buildings, a gargoyle head lying overturned in the street. I saw smashed statues (of what I didn't know, but I eventually found out). I saw a huge, sprawling palace with glass towers so high their tips pierced the clouds. Those images released the story I wanted to tell.". Suspense. Thriller. Fantasy. Fiction. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-09-09 20:00:03. Numrich, Seth. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=08187587-23a3-46ac-98dc-34dc2152a0ae&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=08187587-23a3-46ac-98dc-34dc2152a0ae&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)