Bag of Bones

Bag of Bones - Stephen King

Four years after the sudden death of his wife, forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write, and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the western Maine summerhouse he calls Sara Laughs, Mike reluctantly returns to the lakeside getaway. There, he finds his beloved Yankee town held in the grip of a powerful millionaire, Max Devore, whose vindictive purpose is to take his three-year-old granddaughter, Kyra, away from her widowed young mother, Mattie. As Mike is drawn into Mattie and Kyra's struggle, as he falls in love with both of them, he is also drawn into the mystery of Sara Laughs, now the site of ghostly visitations and escalating terrors. What are the forces that have been unleashed hereand what do they want of Mike Noonan?It is no secret that King is one of our most mesmerizing storytellers. In Bag of Bones, he proves to be one of our most moving as well.

Published: 1999-06-01 (Pocket Books)

ISBN: 9780671024239

Language: English

Format: Mass Market Paperback, 736 pages

Goodreads' rating: -

Genres

Fiction Thriller Horror

Reviews

Marilin rated it

Meh.

Madel rated it

Haunted read! a bit long but the storyline was scary good and very intense (paperback!)

Dona rated it

I was a big Stephen King fan back in the 7th grade, mainly because it was my first experience with books written for adults. After a while though, I stared reading other more obscure novels and I stopped reading King's works. Bag of Bones really caught my interest though, and I found it to be much better than many of his other books because of the way it deals so much with plain human emotion, loss and life. Like his novel Pet Sematary, Bag of Bones has a main theme of overwhelming grief, as the main character tries to move on from the death of a loved one, finding it impossible. Sometimes it's the simplest things that can be the most complex, as King's novel proves. He also creates a vivid setting and very realistic characters.