Could Stephen King make a living as storyteller?
October 2, 2007 by Audado
After the sudden death of his wife Jo, successful author Mike Noonan is plagued by writer’s block. Tyrannized with his dreams haunted by the summer house he shared with her, and questions about the last months before her death, he reluctantly decides to return to the isolated lakeside retreat.
There he finds his town in the hold of the powerful tycoon Devore, who takes advantage of this small community to his own purpose.
Mike gets involuntarily involved in a family conflict, in which Devore attempts to take his young granddaughter away from her widowed young mother.
Mike falls in love with both of them and is further drawn into the mystery of this ghost-like town.
Listen to Stephen King how he uses careful scene-setting to lead us into the sensible, rational world of Mike’s home and family. Then, he slowly moves into an unreal world. Where good and evil spirits emerge and situations become spooky events. The crawling revelation gets under your skin and drives the story.
Noonan’s efforts to help a young woman and her child reveals a dark secrets in their lakeside borough.
Stephen King’s audiobook is enriched with great blues music, and King even sings a few bars without overshadowing or diverting at all.
This is a treat for fans and for listeners who haven’t read his work.
King’s magnificence at storytelling has never been better.
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I’m fairly certain that Stephen King has been making a living as a storyteller for at least a couple of years now.