| International Standard Book Number |
1668002175 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781668002179 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
1668005271
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781668005279
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
813/.54 23
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| Personal Name |
King, Stephen, 1947- author.
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| Title Statement |
Fairy tale : a novel / Stephen King.
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| Edition Statement |
First Scribner hardcover edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
Ã2022
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Scribner, 2022.
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| Physical Description |
599 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia
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| Carrier Type |
volume nc rdacarrier
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Legendary 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Summary, Etc. |
Charlie 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 ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself--and his dad. Then, when Charlie is seventeen, he meets Howard Bowditch, a recluse with a big dog in a big house at the top of a big hill. In the backyard is a locked shed from which strange sounds emerge, as if some creature is trying to escape. When Mr. Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie the house, a massive amount of gold, a cassette tape telling a story that is impossible to believe, and a responsibility far too massive for a boy to shoulder. Because within the shed is a portal to another world--one whose denizens are in peril and whose monstrous leaders may destroy their own world, and ours. In this parallel universe, where two moons race across the sky, and the grand towers of a sprawling palace pierce the clouds, there are exiled princesses and princes who suffer horrific punishments; there are dungeons; there are games in which men and women must fight each other to the death for the amusement of the "Fair One." And there is a magic sundial that can turn back time.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Good and evil. (OCoLC)fst00944894 fast
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Teenage boys Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Imaginary wars and battles Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Heroes Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Older men Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Good and evil Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Imaginary places Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Imaginary places. (OCoLC)fst00967571 fast
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Teenagers. (OCoLC)fst01145551 fast
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Older people. (OCoLC)fst01199093 fast
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Imaginary wars and battles. (OCoLC)fst00967580 fast
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Multiverse Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Multiverse. (OCoLC)fst01985500 fast
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
FICTION / Fantasy / Dark Fantasy bisacsh
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Fantasy fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726607 fast
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Fantasy fiction. lcgft
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787 fast
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Paranormal fiction. (OCoLC)fst01921727 fast
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Paranormal fiction. lcgft
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