Under the Dome (Compact Disc)

When you consider the poundage and do a page-count, it begins to make sense why it took master novelist Stephen King more than 25 years to complete this book. (Although, it`s not like he hasn`t stayed pretty busy in the interim.) The scope and heft of this epic work will remind die-hard fans of his early works like IT and THE STAND, and the story is classic King, simple, yet bizarre: On a perfectly normal day, a small town in Maine is mysteriously surrounded by an impenetrable dome. There is absolutely no way out or in. Where the dome came from, what it`s made of, or how long it will persist plague the citizens of Chester`s Mill, but for King, the real drama is in what the townspeople (and he gives a census-list of characters; more than 100 are mentioned) will do now. They are isolated from the rest of the world and claustrophobically confined under this confounding dome. Alliances and tensions inevitably form: the central one between an Iraq War-vet, a nurse, the town`s newspaper owner, and three on-the-loose kids against a nefarious politico and his son, who has a dark and dirty secret stashed away. UNDER THE DOME is vintage King, updated for the 21st-century; it`s frightening, gripping, elucidating, and you`ll want to devour all its 1,000-plus pages in one sitting.

Author:

King, Stephen

ISBN:

9781442345508

Format:

Audio

Publish Date:

11/08/2011

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster

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