Needful Things

Informationen zum Autor Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books! all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes  Sleeping Beauties  (cowritten with his son Owen King)! the short story collection  The Bazaar of Bad Dreams! the Bill Hodges trilogy End of Watch ! Finders Keepers ! and Mr. Mercedes  (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and now an AT&T Audience Network original television series)!  Doctor Sleep ! and  Under the Dome . His novel  11/22/63 —a Hulu original television series event—was named a top ten book of 2011 by  The New York Times Book Review  and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works  The Dark Tower  and  It  are the basis for major motion pictures. He is the recipient of the 2014 National Medal of Arts and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor! Maine! with his wife! novelist Tabitha King. Needful Things CHAPTER ONE 1 In a small town, the opening of a new store is big news. It wasn’t as big a deal to Brian Rusk as it was to some; his mother, for instance. He had heard her discussing it (he wasn’t supposed to call it gossiping, she had told him, because gossiping was a dirty habit and she didn’t do it) at some length on the telephone with her best friend, Myra Evans, over the last month or so. The first workmen had arrived at the old building which had last housed Western Maine Realty and Insurance right around the time school let in again, and they had been busily at work ever since. Not that anyone had much idea what they were up to in there; their first act had been to put in a large display window, and their second had been to soap it opaque. Two weeks ago a sign had appeared in the doorway, hung on a string over a plastic see-through suction-cup. OPENING SOON! the sign read. NEEDFUL THINGS A NEW KIND OF STORE “You won’t believe your eyes!” “It’ll be just another antique shop,” Brian’s mother said to Myra. Cora Rusk had been reclining on the sofa at the time, holding the telephone with one hand and eating chocolate-covered cherries with the other while she watched Santa Barbara on the TV. “Just another antique shop with a lot of phony early American furniture and moldy old crank telephones. You wait and see.” That had been shortly after the new display window had been first installed and then soaped over, and his mother spoke with such assurance that Brian should have felt sure the subject was closed. Only with his mother, no subject ever seemed to be completely closed. Her speculations and suppositions seemed as endless as the problems of the characters on Santa Barbara and General Hospital. Last week the first line of the sign hanging in the door was changed to read: GRAND OPENING OCTOBER 9TH—BRING YOUR FRIENDS! Brian was not as interested in the new store as his mother (and some of the teachers; he had heard them talking about it in the teachers’ room at Castle Rock Middle School when it was his turn to be Office Mailman), but he was eleven, and a healthy eleven-year-old boy is interested in anything new. Besides, the name of the place fascinated him. Needful Things: what, exactly, did that mean? He had read the changed first line last Tuesday, on his way home from school. Tuesday afternoons were his late days. Brian had been born with a harelip, and although it had been surgically corrected when he was seven, he still had to go to speech therapy. He maintained stoutly to everyone who asked that he hated this, but he did not. He was deeply and hopelessly in love with Miss Ratcliffe, and he waited all week for his special ...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Stephen King
• Verlag: Pocket Books USA
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9781501143786
• ISBN: 978-1-5011-4378-6
• Abmessung: 106 mm x 190 mm x 42 mm
• Serie: Pocket Books
• Thema: Belletristik > Spannung > Krimis, Thriller, Spionage