Drunken Fireworks
by:
Tim Sample (author)
Stephen King (author)
Only on audio! A brand-new, never-before-published Stephen King short story unavailable in any other format!Alden McCausland and his mother are what they call “accident rich”; thanks to an unexpected life-insurance policy payout and a winning Big Maine Millions scratcher, Alden and his Ma are...
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Only on audio! A brand-new, never-before-published Stephen King short story unavailable in any other format!Alden McCausland and his mother are what they call “accident rich”; thanks to an unexpected life-insurance policy payout and a winning Big Maine Millions scratcher, Alden and his Ma are able to spend their summers down by Lake Abenaki, idly drinking their days away in a three-room cabin with an old dock and a lick of a beach. Across the lake, they can see what “real rich” looks like: the Massimo family’s Twelve Pines Camp, the big white mansion with guest house and tennis court that Alden’s Ma says is paid for by “ill-gotten gains” courtesy of Massimo Construction. When Alden’s holiday-weekend sparklers and firecrackers set off what over the next few years comes to be known as the Fourth of July Arms Race, he learns how far he and the Massimos will go to win an annual neighborly rivalry—one that lands Alden in the Castle County jail. Read by beloved Down East storyteller Tim Sample—praised by Stephen King for his “wit and talent and good-heartedness”—Drunken Fireworks makes for explosive audio listening.
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Format: Audio CD
ISBN:
9781442389649 (1442389648)
ASIN: 1442389648
Publish date: 2015-06-30
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Edition language: English
I thought this one was pretty comical because I knew pretty much that it would end badly. Drinking + fireworks = disaster but then when you add in some competition between some folks who are from different sides of the fence and you have a bigger DISASTER. This was a fast story and the accents wer...
A silly story about competitive neighbors. Mildly entertaining, but not one of his best. Audiobook, borrowed from my public library. Tim Sample provides an enthusiastic performance. He’s definitely all-in.
This is a short little tale about how people try to top each other and how things can build until they’re out of control. I’m a little surprised that it actually pretty much worked out.
I haven't listened to an audio book in many years but when a new Stephen King book is released on audio only, how could I resist? Apparently, it's going to be included in an upcoming book of short stories but I wasn't waiting! It's a short listen, only an hour and 20 minutes. It's basically about ...
Drunken fireworks, author, Stephen King; narrator, Tim Sample This short story will be part of King’s latest book, “The Bazaar of Bad Dreams” which is due out in November of 2015. In this story, two families, from the right and wrong side of the tracks, living on opposite sides of a lake, are engage...