Just After Sunset

Stephen King

Hodder & Stoughton Limited, 2008 - Fiction - 353 pages

The giant new fiction title from Stephen King. What would you do if your everyday world were turned upside down in an instant? Here are twelve riveting stories about relationships with unexpected twists. Be very careful what you wish for. Read about the acts of kindness from strangers: 'workmen' who intervene in the obsessive exercise regime of a middle aged artist in Stationary Bike; the unexpected visitor, a blind girl, whose kiss saves a dying man; a mute hitchhiker who helps a driver get over his wife's affair. There are tales of obsession and fights for power: The Gingerbread Girl runs and runs to ease her pain; two neighbours contesting for a piece of land get into A Very Tight Place and a man who witnesses an act of domestic violence in a Rest Stop needs to step into his identity as a crime writer if he's to intervene. Then there are the unexpected outside events which turn people's worlds upside down or the right way up: a young couple, David and Willa who are derailed on a train find themselves seeking the bright lights in a nearby town -- and playing the jukebox, for eternity; an older couple want to punctuate the banal humdrum with something unusual -- until it happens.

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Review: Just After Sunset

User Review  - Holmes - Goodreads

I can now proclaim, conclusively, that Stephen King is best at writing novellas. Not short stories, not novels, but medium-length stories of about 80 pages or so. I came to this conclusion after ...

Review: Just After Sunset

User Review  - Jodi Clager - Goodreads

Oh, Stephen King! I just can't quit you! No matter how many times you disappoint (Under the Dome) or underwhelm me ('Salem's Lot), I just keep coming back for more. It's a good thing that you are on ...

About the author

King is the author of over forty bestsellers including Cell and The Stand. Some of his books have been turned into celebrated films including The Shawshank Redemption and Misery. For most of the year he lives in Maine.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Just After Sunset
• Author: Stephen King
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Limited, 2008
• ISBN: 0340977167, 9780340977163
• Length: 353 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Horror; Fiction / Psychological; Fiction / Short Stories (single author)