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Der siebzehnjährige Charlie Reade hat kein leichtes Leben. Seine Mutter starb, als er sieben war, und sein Vater ist dem Alkohol verfallen. Eines Tages offenbart ihm der von allen gemiedene mysteriöse Nachbar auf dem Sterbebett ein Geheimnis, das Charlie schließlich auf eine abenteuerliche Reise in eine andere, fremde Welt führt. Dort treiben mächtige Kreaturen ihr Unwesen. Die unterdrückten Einwohner sehen in Charlie ihren Retter. Aber dazu muss er erst die Prinzessin, die rechtmäßige Gebieterin des fantastischen Märchenreichs, von ihrem grausamen Leiden befreien.
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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.
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. When Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from it.
Charlie starts doing jobs for Mr. Bowditch and loses his heart to Radar. Then, when Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie a cassette tape telling a story no one would believe. What Bowditch knows, and has kept secret all his long life, is that inside the shed is a portal to another world.
King’s storytelling in Fairy Tale soars. This is a magnificent and terrifying tale in which good is pitted against overwhelming evil, and a heroic boy—and his dog—must lead the battle.
Early in the Pandemic, King asked himself: “What could you write that would make you happy?”
“As if my imagination had been waiting for the question to be asked, I saw a vast deserted city—deserted but alive. I saw the empty streets, the haunted buildings, a gargoyle head lying overturned in the street. I saw smashed statues (of what I didn’t know, but I eventually found out). I saw a huge, sprawling palace with glass towers so high their tips pierced the clouds. Those images released the story I wanted to tell.”
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