Bag of Bones (Paperback)
Description:
Mike Noonan, an author who has had writer`s block since his wife died four years ago, retreats to a country house in Maine. Once there, he becomes entangled in a complex relationship between a 3-year-old girl, her young mother, and her grandfather, and, since this is, in fact, a Stephen King novel, Mike is also in for sleepless nights haunted by secretive pasts and the ghosts that those secrets have left in their wake.
Reviews...
Book World
(11/1/1998)
- by Mazmanian, Adam
"As brilliantly as [King] crafts horror and suspense, he`s not so hot with the supernatural. His spectral universe lacks the internal consistency of Lovecraft`s or the ambiguous subjectivity of Poe`s....[I]n the end, the book falls apart in a fusillade of bullets and a gathering of ghosts that spoil the delicate tension that King has laboured for 400 pages to establish....Like THE SHINING, another nearly great novel held captive by King`s ghostly preoccupations, BAG OF BONES just misses being more than a page turner."
San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
(09/20/1998)
- by Judd, Elizabeth
"BAG OF BONES is hardly [King`s] best book, but it`s lively and, given its flaws, far more gripping than it has any right to be."
New York Times Book Review
(08/27/1998)
- by Mendelsohn, Daniel
"Happily, BAG OF BONES is, for extended stretches, as good a read as many of the old, "straight" horror novels, but in the end it can`t decide whether it wants to be a serious work of literary fiction or a horror blockbuster. The result is a book that doesn`t quite work as either[.]"
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