{"product_id":"fairy-tale-hardcover","title":"Fairy Tale - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eBestseller and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003eEditors' Choice!\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eLegendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher--for that world or ours.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCharlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was seven, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself--and his dad. When Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Charlie starts doing jobs for Mr. Bowditch and loses his heart to Radar. Then, when Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie a cassette tape telling a story no one would believe. What Bowditch knows, and has kept secret all his long life, is that inside the shed is a portal to another world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e King's storytelling in \u003ci\u003eFairy Tale\u003c\/i\u003e soars. This is a magnificent and terrifying tale in which good is pitted against overwhelming evil, and a heroic boy--and his dog--must lead the battle. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Early in the Pandemic, King asked himself: \"What could you write that would make you happy?\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"As if my imagination had been waiting for the question to be asked, I saw a vast deserted city--deserted but alive. I saw the empty streets, the haunted buildings, a gargoyle head lying overturned in the street. I saw smashed statues (of what I didn't know, but I eventually found out). I saw a huge, sprawling palace with glass towers so high their tips pierced the clouds. Those images released the story I wanted to tell.\"","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101575942367,"sku":"9781668002179","price":32.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/SUZHM0xlQ1VCME02N0ZONVJUSXhVZz09.webp?v=1781071753","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/fairy-tale-hardcover","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}