Bag of Bones

Hardcover, 529 pages

English language

Published Aug. 7, 1998 by Scribner.

ISBN:
978-0-684-85350-5
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OCLC Number:
607053345

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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 40-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 …

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Subjects

  • Custody of children -- Fiction
  • Grandfathers -- Fiction
  • Widowers -- Fiction
  • Widows -- Fiction
  • Authors -- Fiction
  • Maine -- Fiction