Fairy tale : a novel

Resource Information

The work Fairy tale : a novel represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Fairy tale : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

Stephen King

Creator

• trueKing, Stephen, 1947-

Author

• trueKing, Stephen, 1947-

Subject

• Good and evil -- Fiction
• Imagination -- Fiction
• Paranormal fiction
• Recluses -- Fiction
• Secrecy -- Fiction
• Thought and thinking -- Fiction
• Dogs -- Fiction
• trueFantasy fiction

Genre

• Fantasy fiction
• Fiction
• Paranormal fiction

Language

eng

Summary

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

Cataloging source

AUNRT

Dewey number

813.6

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult