Lisey's verhaal (Paperback )
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9789024557745 (9024557747)
Publish date: 2006
Publisher: Luitingh-Sijthoff
Pages no: 524
Edition language: Dutch
Lisey Landon is the widow of Scott Landon, a beloved, best-selling author who died two years before the main action of the novel (whose "now" is 2006). Despite persistent requests from interested professors, she has not been able to bring herself to go through and pack up his papers and books to do...
King’s novel about a wife coming to terms with the death of her husband as well as what to do with his belongings isn’t a horror novel in the usual sense, and quite frankly, if it wasn’t for one scene I doubt that it would be classified as a horror novel. King can write women, and he does not descri...
When I read this book years ago I remember loving it and even crying while reading. Now I see the flaws in this book all over the place. It doesn't help that at the time I had not read most of King's works so I didn't see how he heavily "borrowed" from his other stories. If you are a Castle Rock fan...
“...the yellow thread of memory...”: very sharp foreshadowingNote for myself: “Sh-Boom” was written and recorded by The Chords; the white versions that did well were the covers by The Billy Williams Quartet and The Crew-CutsThe reason it took me so long to finish this book, after a couple of starts ...
Lisey's Story by Stephen King is a story about Lisey and the love she has for her husband. I adore King's work, and this book was no exception. To me, this is a love story only the way King can do it, and of course there is imagination running amok. All I can say is that I loved it, but I'm bias w...