Author: Stephen King
Translator: Young-hak Cho
Publisher: Hwanggumgaji
568 pages | 223*140mm
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About This Book
Stephen King -- who has written more than fifty books, dozens of number
one New York Times bestsellers, and many unforgettable movies --
delivers an astonishing collection of short stories, his first since
Everything's Eventual six years ago. As guest editor of the bestselling
Best American Short Stories 2007, King spent over a year reading
hundreds of stories. His renewed passion for the form is evident on
every page of Just After Sunset. The stories in this collection have
appeared in The New Yorker, Playboy, McSweeney's, The Paris Review,
Esquire, and other publications.
Who but Stephen King would turn a Port-O-San into a slimy birth canal,
or a roadside honky-tonk into a place for endless love? A book salesman
with a grievance might pick up a mute hitchhiker, not knowing the silent
man in the passenger seat listens altogether too well. Or an exercise
routine on a stationary bicycle, begun to reduce bad cholesterol, might
take its rider on a captivating -- and then terrifying -- journey. Set
on a remote key in Florida, "The Gingerbread Girl" is a riveting tale
featuring a young woman as vulnerable -- and resourceful -- as Audrey
Hepburn's character in Wait Until Dark. In "Ayana," a blind girl works a
miracle with a kiss and the touch of her hand. For King, the line
between the living and the dead is often blurry, and the seams that hold
our reality intact might tear apart at any moment. In one of the longer
stories here, "N.," which recently broke new ground when it was adapted
as a graphic digital entertainment, a psychiatric patient's irrational
thinking might create an apocalyptic threat in the Maine
countryside...or keep the world from falling victim to it.
Just After Sunset -- call it dusk, call it twilight, it's a time when
human intercourse takes on an unnatural cast, when nothing is quite as
it appears, when the imagination begins to reach for shadows as they
dissipate to darkness and living daylight can be scared right out of
you. It's the perfect time for Stephen King.
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