His father loses his job, the bills pile up, and Charlie begins to wonder if they’ll end up living in their car or under a highway overpass. His insurance-adjuster father drowns his grief in alcohol, and for a while Charlie himself goes wrong, palling around with a bad seed and engaging in destructive and occasionally cruel pranks. When Charlie, an only child, is 8, his mother goes out to pick up a fried chicken dinner for the family and is hit by a truck skidding on an icy bridge grating. Instead, he first carefully builds a portrait of Charlie’s present-day life in the small Illinois town of Sentry’s Rest. Not for King, the brisk dispensing of the mundane real world in favor of the thrilling vistas of Narnia or Wonderland. His hero, high school senior Charlie Reade, doesn’t begin his trek down the stone stairs spiraling underground in his neighbor’s backyard until about a quarter of the way through the book.
The more of them I read, the more I appreciate King’s set-ups. And as he follows the mysterious crow, he's grabbed by the neck and dragged into a hedge.The book’s alternate world combines Grimmian fairy-tale elements with Lovecraftian cosmic horror, but it takes a while to get there. ' What ten-year-old could resist a bird that speaks his name? Not Ty, that's for sure. Young Tyler Marshall, left behind one afternoon by his bullying friends, pedals past the local old folks' home and is accosted by a crow. But, plagued by visions of another world, Jack has retired to this rural retreat precisely to avoid such horrors - and, having recognized the touch of madness on this case, he's keeping well away. It's all way beyond the experience of the local police, whose only hope lies with ex-detective Jack Sawyer, the man who cracked their last case for them. Three children have been lost - taken by a monster with a taste for child's flesh nicknamed 'The Fisherman' after a legendary murderer. A comfortable, solid middle-American town inhabited by comfortable, solid middle-Americans! and a serial killer. Two of the greatest storytellers of our time join forces to create an epic thriller of unsurpassed power a twisting, compelling story of a small American town held in the grip of evil beyond all reason.
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