Lisey's Story (Unabridged)
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4.2 • 168 Ratings
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- $24.99
Publisher Description
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.
*Also an Apple TV+ limited series starring Julianne Moore and Clive Owen*
Lisey lost her husband Scott, 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, Lisey knew there was a place Scott went 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...exhilarating” (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).
Customer Reviews
Weirdly great
Really enjoyed this. It had mixed reviews but very glad I persevered and the pace and ending were well managed and not a sped up throwaway. Very easy to visualise the other world (like in Fairytale) and suspenseful (reminded me of Duma Key but not sure why). Disappointed when it ended which is always a good sign. Definitely worth it
Beautiful and horrifying
One of my all time fav Stephen King books….a beautiful and haunting tale of true love and the grief that comes with losing them.
Lisey’s story
A cure for insomnia. Way too much detail. Big disappointment.