Joyland by Stephen King
Random House
Paperback
*KU Recommends*
Set in a dying amusement park in the south, Joyland features a ghost and a serial killer, but the real heart of the novel is a coming of age story, one that took me vividly back to my own youth, working the rides at Uncle Milty's in Bayonne. — George R.R Martin
Joyland features some of King's most graceful writing. Ruminative, amused, digressive, marvelously unaffected, and finally, devastatingly sad. — Entertainment Weekly
It’s good to have a book like this now – simple, sweet, and not a little scary – to remind us that among the prequels and sequels, the epics and the TV series, Stephen King can still spin one hell of a little yarn. — FEARnet
Joyland is pretty much perfect in its pursuit of diversion. This story of a broken heart, a summer job and a beach amusement park — infused with ghosts, killers and a boy with "the sight" — is lovingly streamlined. It starts strong, ends stronger. Sturdy finales are never a given with King, but this one, Constant Readers, will have you gasping and, ultimately, blinking back big fat tears. "The ultimate "beach" book from one of literature's slyest entertainers. —Tampa Bay Times
Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.
Random House
Paperback
*KU Recommends*
Set in a dying amusement park in the south, Joyland features a ghost and a serial killer, but the real heart of the novel is a coming of age story, one that took me vividly back to my own youth, working the rides at Uncle Milty's in Bayonne. — George R.R Martin
Joyland features some of King's most graceful writing. Ruminative, amused, digressive, marvelously unaffected, and finally, devastatingly sad. — Entertainment Weekly
It’s good to have a book like this now – simple, sweet, and not a little scary – to remind us that among the prequels and sequels, the epics and the TV series, Stephen King can still spin one hell of a little yarn. — FEARnet
Joyland is pretty much perfect in its pursuit of diversion. This story of a broken heart, a summer job and a beach amusement park — infused with ghosts, killers and a boy with "the sight" — is lovingly streamlined. It starts strong, ends stronger. Sturdy finales are never a given with King, but this one, Constant Readers, will have you gasping and, ultimately, blinking back big fat tears. "The ultimate "beach" book from one of literature's slyest entertainers. —Tampa Bay Times
Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.
Random House
Paperback
*KU Recommends*
Set in a dying amusement park in the south, Joyland features a ghost and a serial killer, but the real heart of the novel is a coming of age story, one that took me vividly back to my own youth, working the rides at Uncle Milty's in Bayonne. — George R.R Martin
Joyland features some of King's most graceful writing. Ruminative, amused, digressive, marvelously unaffected, and finally, devastatingly sad. — Entertainment Weekly
It’s good to have a book like this now – simple, sweet, and not a little scary – to remind us that among the prequels and sequels, the epics and the TV series, Stephen King can still spin one hell of a little yarn. — FEARnet
Joyland is pretty much perfect in its pursuit of diversion. This story of a broken heart, a summer job and a beach amusement park — infused with ghosts, killers and a boy with "the sight" — is lovingly streamlined. It starts strong, ends stronger. Sturdy finales are never a given with King, but this one, Constant Readers, will have you gasping and, ultimately, blinking back big fat tears. "The ultimate "beach" book from one of literature's slyest entertainers. —Tampa Bay Times
Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.