Lisey’s Story

“With Lisey’s Story, King has crashed the exclusive party of literary fiction, and he’ll be no easier to ignore than Carrie at the prom.” — Ron Charles, The Washington Post

“Haunting… A tender, intimate book that makes an epic interior journey.” — The New York Times

“[An] intricate… novel, King explores two hidden worlds… [and] reveals, with subtle precision, the profound strangeness of widowhood, when someone who was present for so much of a shared life is gone.” — The New Yorker

“Lisey’s Story is a wondrous novel of marriage, a love story steeped in strength and tenderness, and cast with the most vivid, touching, and believable characters in recent literature. I came to adore Lisey Landon and her sisters, I ached for Scott and all he’d been through, and when I finally reached the bittersweet and heartfelt conclusion, my first thought was that I wanted to start over again from the beginning, for it felt as if I were saying good-bye to old friends. This is Stephen King at his finest and most generous, a dazzling novel that you’ll thank yourself for reading long after the final page is turned.” — Nicholas Sparks, author of At First Sight and The Notebook

“In Lisey’s Story, Stephen King makes bold, brilliant use of his satanic storytelling gift, his angelic ear for language, and, above all, his incomparable ability to find the epic in the ordinary, to present us with the bloody and fabulous tale of an ordinary marriage. In his hands, the long, passionate union of Scott and Lisey Landon — of any long-lived marriage, by implication — becomes a fantastic kingdom, with its own geography and language, its dark and stirring chronicle of heroes and monsters, its tragedies, griefs, and glories. King has been getting me to look at the world with terror and wonder since I was fifteen years old, and I have never been more persuaded than by this book of his greatness.” — Michael Chabon, author of The Final Solution: A Story of Detection and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay