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Summary
A master storyteller at his best—the O. Henry Prize
winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories,
several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory
autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to
write (or rewrite) each story.
Since his first collection,
Nightshift, published thirty-five years ago, Stephen
King has dazzled readers with his genius as a writer of short
fiction. In this new collection he assembles, for the first
time, recent stories that have never been published in a book.
He introduces each with a passage about its origins or his
motivations for writing it.
There are thrilling connections between stories; themes
of morality, the afterlife, guilt, what we would do differently
if we could see into the future or correct the mistakes of the
past. “Afterlife” is about a man who died of colon
cancer and keeps reliving the same life, repeating his mistakes
over and over again. Several stories feature characters...