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Mile 81 - Includes Bonus Story 'The Dune' (Standard format, CD)
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Mile 81 - Includes Bonus Story 'The Dune' (Standard format, CD)
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List price R362
Loot Price R271
Discovery Miles 2 710
You Save R91 (25%)
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"Mile 81" is "Stand by Me" meets "Christine"--the story of an
insatiable car and a heroic kid.
At Mile 81 on the Maine Turnpike is a boarded-up rest stop, a place
where high school kids drink and get into the kind of trouble high
school kids have always gotten into. It's the place where Pete
Simmons, armed only with the magnifying glass he got for his tenth
birthday, finds a discarded bottle of vodka in the boarded up
burger shack and drinks enough to pass out. Not much later, a
mud-covered station wagon (which is strange because there hadn't
been any rain in New England for over a week) veers into the Mile
81 rest area, ignoring the sign that says "closed, no services."
The driver's door opens but nobody gets out.
By the time Pete Simmons wakes up from his vodka nap, there are
half a dozen cars at the Mile 81 rest stop. But two kids and a
horse are the only living things left...unless you maybe count the
wagon. With the heart of "Stand By Me" and the genius horror of
"Christine," "Mile 81" is Stephen King unleashing his imagination
as he drives past one of those road signs.
In the bonus story "The Dune," originally published in "Granta"'s
October 2011 horror issue, retired Florida Supreme Court Judge
Harvey Beecher tells his lawyer about a mysterious sand dune on an
unnamed island a short distance off the Gulf coastline of his
family's property. Harvey first visited the island at the age of
ten in 1932, after his grandfather, a scoundrel and land speculator
who'd created the family fortune, told him Blackbeard's treasure
might be buried there. Traveling to the island became a daily
addiction for Harvey...and now his lawyer is about to discover the
shocking reason why.
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