Bag of Bones

Description

Bag of Bones is a 1998 horror novel by American writer Stephen King. It focuses on an author who suffers severe writer's block and delusions at an isolated lake house four years after the death of his wife. It won the 1999 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel, the 1999 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and the 1999 Locus Award for Best Dark Fantasy/Horror Novel. The book re-uses many basic plot elements of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, which is directly referenced several times in the book's opening pages; however, the relation of these elements (including a wife who is dead as the book opens, her posthumous effect on future romance, a drowning, and house haunted by the memories of previous inhabitants) to the plot and characters is markedly different. When the paperback edition of Bag of Bones was published by Pocket Books on June 1, 1999 (ISBN 978-0671024239).

First Sentence

Un bochornoso dia de agosto de 1994, mi mujer me dijo que iba al Rite Aid de Derry a comprar un recambio para el inhalador de la sinusitis; segun creo, en la actualidad estos farmacos se venden sin receta medica.

Excerpt

On a very hot day in August of 1994, my wife told me she was going down to the Derry Rite Aid to pick up a refill on her sinus medicine prescription -- this is stuff you can buy over the counter these days, I believe.

Description

Four years after the sudden death of his wife, forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write, and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the western Maine summerhouse he calls Sara Laughs, Mike reluctantly returns to the lakeside getaway. There, he finds his beloved Yankee town held in the grip of a powerful millionaire, Max Devore, whose vindictive purpose is to take his three-year-old granddaughter, Kyra, away from her widowed young mother, Mattie. As Mike is drawn into Mattie and Kyra's struggle, as he falls in love with both of them, he is also drawn into the mystery of Sara Laughs, now the site of ghostly visitations and escalating terrors. What are the forces that have been unleashed here—and what do they want of Mike Noonan? It is no secret that King is one of our most mesmerizing storytellers. In Bag of Bones, he proves to be one of our most moving as well. (back cover)

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Other Editions

• Bag of BonesMass Market PaperbackPocket Books1999-06-01
• Bag of BonesHodder & Stoughton1998-01-01
• Bag of BoneshardcoverScribner1998-01-01
• Bag of Bones 18 Copy BinHodder & Stoughton1998-01-01
• Bag of Bones PosterHodder & Stoughton1998-01-01
• Un Saco De Huesos/A Bag of BonesHardcoverLectorum Pubns Inc1998-01-01