Bag of Bones

...a thoroughly compelling thriller... --Esquire ...King orchestrates the rising tension with the deft touch of a maestro. --Library Journal Bag of Bones is, hands down, King's most narratively subversive fiction. Whenever you're positive -- just positive! -- you know where this ghost story is heading, that's exactly when it gallops off in some jaw-dropping new direction. --Entertainment Weekly Bag of Bones proves that King is as seductive a storyteller as ever, pulling readers along as he explores the hidden evils of small-town America. --People Contains some of [King's] best writing...This is King's most romantic book, and ghosts are up and about from the get-go....The big surprise here is the emotional wallop the story packs. -- Newsweek It may be that after thirty-one novels, Stephen King is just getting started....Bag of Bones may be Stephen King's most ambitious novel ...the effort has inspired a new directness and maturity in his work....Very few writers can convey the passive terrors of nightmares better than King, and he crafts one amazing dream sequence after another. --Atlanta Journal & Constitution It's sometimes hard to tell what's more threatening: the ghosts that rearrange the magnetic letters on Noonan's refrigerator or the gossip and domestic violence festering in a rural New England town. But that's the genius of King, a master of inserting the 'para' into normal, everyday life. --Glamour King has honed his talent into a unique American voice, broader and more ambitious than most of his peers....[Bag of Bones] has depth....It's a ghost story, a love story, a story about race and power...One more thing: Yes, it's scary. Of course it's scary. -- Minneapolis Star Tribune Showcases this master horror writer's other skills - humor, deft characterizations, and a dead-on portrait of twentieth-century life. --Elle Stephen King is so widely accepted as America's master of paranormal terrors that you can forget his real genius is for the everyday...This is a book about reanimation: the ghosts', of course, but also Mike's, his desire to re-embrace love and work after a long bereavement that King depicts with an eye for the kind of small but moving details that don't typically distinguish blockbuster horror novels. --The New York Times Book Review This is King at his clever, terrifying best. --Mademoiselle What I admire most about Bag of Bones is its intelligence of voice, not only the craftsmanship -- the indelible sense of place, the well-fleshed characters, the unstoppable story line -- but the witty and obsessive voice of King's powerful imagination. It places both the ghost story and Stephen King in their proper place on the shelf of literary American fiction. --Amy Tan