Stephen King's most gripping and unforgettable novel, Bag of Bones, is a story of grief and a lost love's enduring bonds, of a new love haunted by the secrets of the past, of an innocent child caught in a terrible crossfire.
Set in the Maine territory King has made mythic, Bag of Bones recounts the plight of 40-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan, who is unable to stop grieving even four years after the sudden death of his wife, Jo, and who can no longer bear to face the blank screen of his word processor.
Now his nights are plagued by vivid nightmares of the house by the lake. Despite these dreams, or perhaps because of them, Mike finally returns to Sara Laughs, the Noonans' isolated summer home.
He finds his beloved Yankee town familiar on its surface, but much changed underneath -- held in the grip of …
From the Flap:
Stephen King's most gripping and unforgettable novel, Bag of Bones, is a story of grief and a lost love's enduring bonds, of a new love haunted by the secrets of the past, of an innocent child caught in a terrible crossfire.
Set in the Maine territory King has made mythic, Bag of Bones recounts the plight of 40-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan, who is unable to stop grieving even four years after the sudden death of his wife, Jo, and who can no longer bear to face the blank screen of his word processor.
Now his nights are plagued by vivid nightmares of the house by the lake. Despite these dreams, or perhaps because of them, Mike finally returns to Sara Laughs, the Noonans' isolated summer home.
He finds his beloved Yankee town familiar on its surface, but much changed underneath -- held in the grip of a powerful millionaire, Max Devore, who twists the very fabric of the community to his purpose: to take his three-year-old granddaughter away from her widowed young mother. As Mike is drawn into their struggle, as he falls in love with both of them, he is also drawn into the mystery of Sara Laughs, now the site of ghostly visitations, ever-escalating nightmares, and the sudden recovery of his writing ability. What are the forces that have been unleashed here -- and what do they want of Mike Noonan?
As vivid and enthralling as King's most enduring works, Bag of Bones resonates with what Amy Tan calls 'the witty and obsessive voice of King's powerful imagination.' It's no secret that King is our most mesmerizing storyteller. In Bag of Bones -- described by Gloria Naylor as 'a love story about the dark places within us all' -- he proves to be one of our most moving.
Una vez más King nos trae persecuciones.
Tengo una debilidad por sus persecuciones.
Escritor viudo intenta retomar la escritura en un encerrón caluroso en una casa del lago donde vuelve a encontrar un segundo aire en el amor sólo para caer estrepitosamente. Los pecados de los padres los pagan los hijos y aquí no se es la excepción.
Como bonus, aquí conocí el adjetivo ESTENTÓREO. Jamás me cansaré de usarlo. No me parece a mejor obra de King y ciertamente la adaptación fílmica con Pierce Brosnan tampoco tiene demasiado lustre pero así como hay películas palomeras de Domingo por la tarde, hay libros que sirven para también, matar el tiempo.
A lo mejor también te topas con un saco de huesos con voz estentórea.
Meh. King tried to juggle a lot in this one, and I feel like a more simplified storyline with fewer characters would've made it creepier. It's the story of an author who develops writer's block in the wake of his wife's unexpected death, and who rediscovers his ability to write only when he returns to their vacation home. However, the vacation home seems haunted - messages appear on the fridge using alphabet magnets, strange noises come from the basement. Add to this a three-year-old child who is at the center of beyond-bitter custody case and a town legacy that's so ugly it continues to ripple through current generations in unexpected ways. There's a lot going on, and - for the first time with a King novel - I found myself impatient for it to end. I'm still a fan - I'd just recommend going with one of his other books.
Bag of Bones is a classic Stephen King story in many ways, taking the first hundred pages or so to establish its setting in New England, this time in upstate Maine in an area so remote it doesn’t actually have a name. The story revolves around a widowed writer who owns a lakeside house called by the bizarre name of Sara Laughs, and which is haunted by the ghost of the eponymous Sara, a black musician who lived there at the start of the 20th century. Since the murder of her child Kito, other children born in the area have also died mysteriously, and all of them had similar names.
In ‘South Park’, Kenny, a child with a K- name which occurs in BoB, not too different to ‘Kito’ and also to ‘Kyra’, the child at the centre of the present-day plot of Bag of Bones, is killed in …
Bag of Bones is a classic Stephen King story in many ways, taking the first hundred pages or so to establish its setting in New England, this time in upstate Maine in an area so remote it doesn’t actually have a name. The story revolves around a widowed writer who owns a lakeside house called by the bizarre name of Sara Laughs, and which is haunted by the ghost of the eponymous Sara, a black musician who lived there at the start of the 20th century. Since the murder of her child Kito, other children born in the area have also died mysteriously, and all of them had similar names.
In ‘South Park’, Kenny, a child with a K- name which occurs in BoB, not too different to ‘Kito’ and also to ‘Kyra’, the child at the centre of the present-day plot of Bag of Bones, is killed in repeated episodes. By establishing that this is not the same child but different children with the same name, each one echoing the previous one and fated to suffer a similar premature death, the apparent impossibility of Kenny’s serial deaths is explained.
A strange aside is provided by the construction of a park called South Park in London SW6, in 1907; while it was being built, a mysterious skeleton was discovered. It seems the area of nearby Hurlingham Park is a former plague pit, and Neolithic remains have been found there too. (This is beginning to sound a bit Quatermass-ish if you ask me).
