His novel 11/22/63 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. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Soon there will be nothing left of Billy Halleck…unless he can somehow locate the source of his living nightmare and reverse what’s happened to him before he utterly wastes away… But Halleck has some powerful local connections, and gets off with a slap on the wrist…much to the fury of the woman’s mysterious and ancient father, who exacts revenge with a single word: “ Thinner.” Now a terrified Halleck finds the weight once so difficult to shed dropping effortlessly-and rapidly-by the week. Then, in a moment of carelessness, Halleck commits vehicular manslaughter when he strikes a jaywalking old woman crossing the street. He’s got it all-an expensive home in Connecticut, a loving family…and fifty extra pounds that his doctor repeatedly warns will be the death of him. You understand, Halleck? Too…far.Īttorney Billy Halleck seriously enjoys living his life of upper-class excess. “You can’t do anything… It’s gone too far. This #1 New York Times bestseller from Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman, “pulsates with evil… will have you on the edge of your seat” ( Publishers Weekly). He lives in Maine, with his wife novelist Tabitha King.The “extraordinary” ( Booklist) novel of a cursed man’s quest to find the source of his nightmare and to reverse it before he becomes…nothing at all. In 2007, he also won the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America.
Stephen King was the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association LIfetime achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
Many of his titles, such as IT, Mr Mercedes and Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption are the basis for major motion pictures, TV series and streamed events, with IT now the highest grossing horror film ever, and The Shawshank Redemption, which is IMDb's top-rated movie of all time. King's recent bestsellers include the highly acclaimed Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute and The Outsider. Among his most celebrated chilling classics are Christine, Cujo, Doctor Sleep, Firestarter and The Shining. STEPHEN KING is the author of more than seventy books, all of them worldwide bestsellers.
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