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Just After Sunset

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Stephen King, Holter Graham, Mare Winningham, Denis O'Hare, Ron McLarty, Jill Eikenberry, Ben Shenkman
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Summary

 King's brand new fiction title: a captivating collection of tales with dark - and light - twists from the master of this wonderful form.

What would you do if your everyday world were turned upside down in an instant? Here are 12 riveting stories about relationships with unexpected twists. Be very careful what you wish for.

Read about the acts of kindness from strangers: workmen who intervene in the obsessive exercise regime of a middle-aged artist in "Stationary Bike"; the unexpected visitor, a blind girl, whose kiss saves a dying man; a mute hitchhiker who helps a driver get over his wife's affair.

There are tales of obsession and fights for power: "The Gingerbread Girl" runs and runs to ease her pain; two neighbours contesting for a piece of land get into "A Very Tight Place" and a man who witnesses an act of domestic violence in a "Rest Stop" needs to step into his identity as a crime writer if he's to intervene.

Then there are the unexpected outside events which turn people's worlds upside down or the right way up: a young couple, David and Willa who are derailed on a train find themselves seeking the bright lights in a nearby town and playing the jukebox, for eternity; an older couple want to punctuate the banal humdrum with something unusual - until it happens.

©2008 Stephen King (P)2008 Hodder & Stoughton Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Fiction Genre Fiction Horror Literary Fiction Short Stories Scary
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"A fabulous teller of stories who can create an entire new world and make the reader live in it." ( Express)
"Storytelling - the ability to make the listener or reader need to know, demand to know, what happens next is a gift . . . Stephen King, like Charles Dickens before him, has this gift in spades." ( The Times)
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If you like Stephen King or horror you should enjoy these short stories. There are a few that will stick in my mind for a while! Great narration, clear and easy to understand.

Another great collection of short stories.

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A genius as always. Some great stories on here. Love the notes at the end too read by Stephen king

Fabulous

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I have to completely disagree with the earlier reviewer- this is a masterful collection of stories, a veritable 'how to' in writing short fiction. Some are creepy, some sad, a few silly. What shines through is King's ability to create identifiable characters and situations then pull a switch which terrifies or amuses. His novels have recently risen out of the irritating overwriting they've been plagued by for over a decade. He's rediscovered that less can be more. Whether this is because he's taken a lead from his son, Joe Hill, or if he's regained his muse, I can't complain.
Special note must be made of the audio presentation: several actors (including LA Law's Jill Eikenberry) vary the voice and tone of the stories, except in one case where the story has distinctly separate narrators where the effect is splendidly realised. King's own notes make it something to treasure, and its interesting to see which stories he choses to narrate himself.
There's an authenticity to King's work which makes him one of my favourite authors no matter how fantastic or dark the material he explores. 9/11 hangs heavy over this collection -explicitly in one story, allegorically in others.
As each story ended, it was a delight to find another one starting. Just wonderful.

A Feast of Finely Framed Fables and Fantasies

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This a selection of weird stories but you must listen to the end as get better and better, each story does make an everyday thought more think able x

Worth reading, food for thought.....

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can't fault it, dreadfully enjoyable, made a busy week tolerable and fun. Will remain a Constant Reader

Excellent compilation

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