Revival
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4.2 • 141 Ratings
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- £5.49
Publisher Description
A spectacularly dark and electrifying novel about addiction, religion, music and what might exist on the other side of life.
In a small New England town, in the early 60s, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister, Charles Jacobs. Soon they forge a deep bond, based on their fascination with simple experiments in electricity.
Decades later, Jamie is living a nomadic lifestyle of bar-band rock and roll. Now an addict, he sees Jacobs again - a showman on stage, creating dazzling 'portraits in lightning' - and their meeting has profound consequences for both men. Their bond becomes a pact beyond even the Devil's devising, and Jamie discovers that revival has many meanings.
This rich and disturbing novel spans five decades on its way to the most terrifying conclusion Stephen King has ever written. It's a masterpiece from King, in the great American tradition of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Handsome, troubled pastor Charles Jacob casts a long and dark shadow over the life of Jamie Morton, an all-American boy from a blue-collar family. Revival crackles with tension and proves yet again that King is as masterful a storyteller as he is prolific. Narrated in a friendly conversational tone, this taut novel ratchets up the thrills and horrors by fixating on razor-sharp details and familiar psychological wounds.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This spellbinding supernatural thriller from MWA Grand Master King chronicles one man's efforts to, as narrator Jamie Morton phrases it, "tap into the secrets of the universe." Charles Jacobs, a Methodist minister in rural Harlow, Maine, loses his faith when his wife and child die in a hideous car accident, but not his obsessive interest in electricity. Over the next 50 years, Jamie a devoted congregant of Jacobs's when young, but a wary skeptic as he matures crosses paths with his friend as the constantly experimenting Jacobs graduates from carnival huckster, to faith healer, and finally to mad scientist convinced that he can harness a "secret electricity" to get a glimpse of "some unknown existence beyond our lives." King (Mr. Mercedes) is a master at invoking the supernatural through the powerful emotions of his characters, and his depiction of Jacobs as a man unhinged by grief but driven by insatiable scientific curiosity is as believable as it is frightening. The novel's ending one of King's best stuns like lightning.
Customer Reviews
Its King King.
Genius.
Awesome
Brilliant story.
Not the king I'm used too
After reading revival am full of mixed emotions to some extent I did enjoy the book very much good story good characters but just seemed to plod on a bit too much for a king book not the usual intense can't put the book down