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ISBN: 9781508239598
| Runtime: | 13.41 Hours |
| Category: | Fiction |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
New York Times bestseller
A Amazon Best Book of the Month for November 2014
A BookPage Top Pick in Suspense for November 2014
The new minister came to Harlow, Maine, when Jamie Morton was a boy doing battle with his toy army men on the front lawn. The young Reverend Charles Jacobs and his beautiful wife brought new life to the local church and captivated their congregation. But with Jamie, he shares a secret obsession—a draw so powerful, it would have profound consequences five decades after the shattering tragedy that turned the preacher against God, and long after his final, scathing sermon. Now Jamie, a nomadic rock guitarist hooked on heroin, meets Charles Jacobs again. And when their bond becomes a pact beyond even the Devil’s devising, Jamie discovers that the word revival has many meanings….
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“A fresh adrenaline rush of terror
from Stephen King…Maine, rock and roll, engaging characters, and a pounding
build to a grisly end–this is vintage King.” —People
“Revival is a dark and haunting tale about old-time religion and one
man’s search for a mythic ‘secret electricity.’ At the same time it’s an
emotional and spectacular coming-of-age tale that spans fifty years of horrific
tragedy and human redemption…Revival
is often heartfelt, as characters deal with painful loss, and the author
invests you wholly in the separate journeys of Jamie and Charlie as they arrive
at their inevitable crossroads and a voltaic endgame.” —USA Today
“Revival finds King writing with the infectious glee that has always
been at the heart of his popular success…Older and wiser each time he writes,
Mr. King has moved on from the physical fear that haunted him after he was
struck by a van while out walking to a more metaphysical, universal terror. He
writes about things so inevitable that he speaks to us all.” —New York Times
“Never mind that King’s prose can
sometimes lapse into laughable cliché – ‘like water through a sieve’? Really? –
there is absolutely no better storyteller than Stephen King, who keeps us up at
night, with fear and fascination and admiration.” —Amazon.com, editorial review
“This spellbinding supernatural thriller from MWA Grand Master King
chronicles one man’s efforts to, as narrator Jamie Morton phrases it,
‘tap into the secrets of the universe’…King is a master at invoking the supernatural through the powerful emotions
of his characters, and his depiction of Jacobs as a man unhinged by
grief but driven by insatiable scientific curiosity is as believable as
it is frightening. The novel’s ending—one of King’s best—stuns like
lightning.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“In the kind of loose, garrulous voice that has
marked his last decade, King spins the yarn of Jamie Morton and Reverend
Charles Jacobs, whose lives wretchedly intertwine for fifty years…The book’s engine is powered
by high-octane dread, and few fuels run stronger.” —Booklist
“David Morse…does his best to keep
the story moving. Morse is such a good performer that the listener has no
problem knowing who is speaking at any time, whether it’s a young boy, an old
man, or a charlatan suffering from a minor stroke.” —AudioFile
Author
Author Bio: Stephen King
Stephen King has written more than sixty books, many hitting the #1 spot on the New York Times bestsellers list. He has won the World Fantasy Award, several Bram Stoker Awards, and the O. Henry Award for his story “The Man in the Black Suit.” He is the 2003 recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and in 2007 he received the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. His epic works The Dark Tower and It are the basis for major motion pictures.
Details
Details
| Available Formats : | CD |
| Category: | Fiction |
| Runtime: | 13.41 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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