Bag of bones

Stephen King

Scribner, 1998 - Fiction - 529 pages

Stephen King's most gripping and unforgettable novel, Bag of Bones, is a story of grief and a lost love's enduring bonds, of a new love haunted by the secrets of the past, of an innocent child caught in a terrible crossfire. Set in the Maine territory King has made mythic, Bag of Bones recounts the plight of forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan, who is unable to stop grieving even four years after the sudden death of his wife, Jo, and who can no longer bear to face the blank screen of his word processor. Now his nights are plagued by vivid nightmares of the house by the lake. Despite these dreams, or perhaps because of them, Mike finally returns to Sara Laughs, the Noonans' isolated summer home. He finds his beloved Yankee town familiar on its surface, but much changed underneath -- held in the grip of a powerful millionaire, Max Devore, who twists the very fabric of the community to his purpose: to take his three-year-old granddaughter away from her widowed young mother. As Mike is drawn into their struggle, as he falls in love with both of them, he is also drawn into the mystery of Sara Laughs, now the site of ghostly visitations, ever-escalating nightmares, and the sudden recovery of his writing ability. What are the forces that have been unleashed here -- and what do they want of Mike Noonan? As vivid and enthralling as King's most enduring works, Bag of Bones resonates with what Amy Tan calls "the witty and obsessive voice of King's powerful imagination." It's no secret that King is our most mesmerizing storyteller. In Bag of Bones -- described by Gloria Naylor as "a love story about the dark places within us all" -- he proves to be one of our most moving.

What people are saying

User Review -

Normally ghost stories scare me to no end, but this was different. There were a few moments where I was scared while reading, but the story was so interesting that it didn't matter.
Don't know if I want letter magnets on my fridge though...

Review: Bag of Bones

User Review  - SA Bolich - Goodreads

Stephen King is one of my favorite authors, and this is not a bad offering from him. I confess to stalling out in the first 50 pages the first time I tried to read it a couple of years ago. I must ...

Contents

• Section 1: 1
• Section 2: 16
• Section 3: 26

About the author

Stephen King is the O. Henry Award-winning author of more than thirty books, including The Shining, The Stand, The Green Mile, and the stories on which the Academy Award-nominated films Carrie, Stand by Me, and Shawshank Redemption are based. His most recent volume in the Dark Tower series is Wizard and Glass. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Bag of bones
• Author: Stephen King
• Publisher: Scribner, 1998
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Mar 10, 2008
• ISBN: 0684853507, 9780684853505
• Length: 529 pages
• Subjects: Authors; Custody of children; Custody of children/ Fiction; Fiction / Ghost; Fiction / Horror; Fiction / Suspense; Grandfathers; Grandfathers/ Fiction; Maine; Widowers; Widowers/ Fiction; Widows; Writer's block