Lisey's Story

The haunting tender, intimate book that makes an epic interior journey ("The New York Times"), "Lisey s Story" is a literary masterpiece an extraordinarily moving and haunting portrait of a marriage and its aftermath. Lisey lost her husband Scott two years ago, after a twenty-five year marriage of profound and sometimes frightening intimacy. Scott was an award-winning, bestselling novelist and a very complicated man. Early in their relationship, before they married, Lisey knew there was a place Scott went a place that both terrified and healed him, could eat him alive or give him the ideas he needed in order to live. Now it s Lisey s turn to face Scott s demons, to go to that terrifying place known as Boo ya Moon. What begins as a widow s effort to sort through the papers of her celebrated husband becomes a nearly fatal journey into the darkness he inhabited. Intricate...Exhilirating ("The New Yorker"), perhaps Stephen King s most personal and powerful novel ever, Lisey s Story is about the wellsprings of creativity, the temptations of madness, and the secret language of love. It is a beautiful, rich portrait of a marriage, and the complicated affection that outlives death ("The Washington Post")."