Stephen King: Just After Sunset (Short Stories) 2008 Hardcover 1st Edition FINE+

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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. from Wikipedia:Just After Sunset is the fifth collection of short stories by Stephen King. It was released in hardcover by Scribner on November 11, 2008, and features a holographic dust jacket. On February 6, 2008, the author's official website revealed the title of the collection to be Just Past Sunset. About a month later, the title was subtly changed to Just After Sunset. Previous titles mentioned in the media by Stephen King himself were Pocket Rockets and Unnatural Acts of Human Intercourse.[1] On February 19, 2008, the author's official site revealed twelve stories that would comprise the collection, mentioning the possibility that one additional "bonus story" could be included, and on April 16 "The Cat from Hell" (a much anthologized but heretofore uncollected short story originally published in 1977) was added to the contents list. King planned to begin writing a new novel, but after he was asked to edit The Best American Short Stories 2007, he was inspired to write short stories instead.[2] Upon King's request, a limited edition was released, along with the regular version, featuring a DVD collection of the 25 episodes of the online animated series based on N., one of the stories collected in this volume.[3] Stories#TitleOriginally published in1"Willa"December 2006 issue of Playboy2"The Gingerbread Girl"July 2007 issue of Esquire3"Harvey's Dream"June 30, 2003 issue of The New Yorker4"Rest Stop"December 2003 issue of Esquire5"Stationary Bike"Borderlands 5 (2003)6"The Things They Left Behind"Transgressions: Volume Two (2005)7"Graduation Afternoon"March 2007 issue of Postscripts8N.Previously unpublished9"The Cat from Hell"June 1977 issue of Cavalier10"The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates"October/November 2008 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction11"Mute"December 2007 issue of Playboy12"Ayana"Fall 2007 issue of The Paris Review13"A Very Tight Place"May 2008 issue of McSweeney's ConnectionsReferences to other King works in Just After Sunset"N." N. mentions the town of Castle Rock, where several of King's stories – including The Dead Zone, The Dark Half, and Needful Things – are set. It also mentions the fictional town of Chester's Mill, which is the setting of his later novel Under the Dome. A clipping from the Chester's Mill local paper, the editor of which is a major character in Under the Dome, is part of the nested narrative. "Mute"In part two of this story, the main character recounts how his wife and her lover, "Cowboy Bob," had gone up to Derry and spent a couple of days at a place called Hollywood Slots. The town of Derry, Maine is the setting of King's 1986 novel It and many of his other novels and stories.

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