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Just After Sunset - Stories (CD, Boxed set)
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Just After Sunset - Stories (CD, Boxed set)
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Stephen King -- who has written more than fifty books, dozens of
number one "New York Times" bestsellers, and many unforgettable
movies -- delivers an astonishing collection of short stories, his
first since "Everything's Eventual" six years ago. As guest editor
of the bestselling "Best American Short Stories 2007," King spent
over a year reading hundreds of stories. His renewed passion for
the form is evident on every page of "Just After Sunset." The
stories in this collection have appeared in "The New Yorker,"
"Playboy," "McSweeney's," "The Paris Review," "Esquire," and other
publications.
Who but Stephen King would turn a Port-O-San into a slimy birth
canal, or a roadside honky-tonk into a place for endless love? A
book salesman with a grievance might pick up a mute hitchhiker, not
knowing the silent man in the passenger seat listens altogether too
well. Or an exercise routine on a stationary bicycle, begun to
reduce bad cholesterol, might take its rider on a captivating --
and then terrifying -- journey. Set on a remote key in Florida,
"The Gingerbread Girl" is a riveting tale featuring a young woman
as vulnerable -- and resourceful -- as Audrey Hepburn's character
in "Wait Until Dark." In "Ayana," a blind girl works a miracle with
a kiss and the touch of her hand. For King, the line between the
living and the dead is often blurry, and the seams that hold our
reality intact might tear apart at any moment. In one of the longer
stories here, "N.," which recently broke new ground when it was
adapted as a graphic digital entertainment, a psychiatric patient's
irrational thinking might create an apocalyptic threat in the Maine
countryside...or keep the world from falling victim to it.
"Just After Sunset" -- call it dusk, call it twilight, it's a time
when human intercourse takes on an unnatural cast, when nothing is
quite as it appears, when the imagination begins to reach for
shadows as they dissipate to darkness and living daylight can be
scared right out of you. It's the perfect time for Stephen King.
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