Category - Fiction / Horror fiction
Format - Hardcover
Condition - Like New
Listed - 10 months ago
Views - 7
Ships From - New York
Est. Publication Date - Nov 2014
Seller Description
You can tell that this was a very personal book for King to write, as it draws upon his accident with a vehicle when he was out walking, his own period of drug dependency, and even his own experience playing in a rock band full of famous people. (As an aside, King has lived such a rich and busy life that I sometimes wonder if his wife, the novelist Tabitha King, has had a hand in helping to churn out a book once or twice a year.) That’s what ultimately makes Revival so rewarding — as a bildungsroman, King is really drawing upon his own experience here, which may make how it ends even more terrifying for him. As usual, King is prone to what an editor friend of mine once called “verbal diarrhea,” and it is true that — even for a relatively short book clocking in at some 400 pages (short by King’s standards) — there is some material that might have been best left on the cutting room floor (the sections where Jacobs is out of Morton’s life, basically). However, the book is so enjoyable, and the characters are so engaging, that it’s hard to let this one go.
Additional Information
Revival: A Novel
ISBN: 9781476770383
Publisher Description
Years after a charismatic minister is banished in the wake of a faith-shattering tragedy, a heroin-addicted rock-and-roll guitarist from the same hometown reconnects with the man and forges a terrible...
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