"In the first line of Ocean State, we learn that a high-school student was murdered, and we find out who did it. The story that unfolds from there with incredible momentum is thus one of the build-up to and fall-out from the murder, told through the alternating perspectives of the four women at its heart. The murderer Angel, her mother Carol, and the victim Birdy, all come alive on the page as they converge in a climax both tragic and inevitable. Watching over it all is the retrospective testimony of Angel’s younger sister Marie, who reflects on that doomed autumn of 2009 with all the wisdom of hindsight. Angel and Birdy love the same teenage boy, frantically and single mindedly, and are compelled by the intensity of their feelings to extremes neither could have anticipated. O’Nan’s expert hand paints a fully realized portrait of these women but also weaves a compelling and heartbreaking story of working-class life in Ashaway, Rhode Island. Propulsive, moving, and deeply rendered, Ocean State is a masterful novel by one of our greatest storytellers"
"“An extraordinary book. O’Nan is amazing in his handling of the abundance of facts, rumors and legends that have built up around this fire.” —USA TodayIt was a midsummer afternoon, halfway through a Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus performance, when the big top caught fire. The tent had been waterproofed with a mixture of paraffin and gasoline; in seconds it was burning out of control. More than 8,000 people were trapped inside, and the ensuing disaster would eventually take 167 lives.Stewart O’Nan brings all his narrative gifts to bear on this gripping account of the great Hartford circus fire of 1944. Drawing on interviews with hundreds of survivors, O’Nan skillfully re-creates the horrific events and illuminates the psychological oddities of human behavior under stress: the mad scramble for the exits; the perilous effort to maneuver animals out of danger; the hero who tossed dozens of children to safety before being trampled to death. Brilliantly constructed and exceptionally moving, The Circus Fire is history at its most compelling.“A profound remembering of the fire, its victims, its survivors, and its legacy.” —The Boston Globe“[O’Nan’s nonfiction] is as accomplished as his fiction…as gripping as any thriller.” —The Seattle Times"
"Depuis la mort de sa femme, Dean Evers trompe l'ennui de ses vieux jours devant les matchs de baseball à la télévision. Quand soudain, dans les gradins, il découvre au cœur de la foule un visage surgi du passé.
Quelqu'un qui ne devrait pas être là, au stade… ni même parmi les vivants. Soir après soir, Dean se laisse hypnotiser par les visages de ceux qu'ils n'espérait – ou ne voulait – plus voir. Mais le pire est à venir…
Stephen King, le maître du fantastique, et son acolyte Stewart O'Nan tordent le quotidien et le réalisme jusqu'à leur point de rupture, avec brio, naturellement.
Ce livre audio est interprété par une voix humaine, dans le respect des engagements d'Hardigan."
"Escucha este escalofriante relato del maestro de la literatura de terror.
Desde la muerte de su mujer, Dean Evers se pasa las tardes apoltronado en el sofá viendo partidos de béisbol. Durante una de estas tardes solitarias, mientras mira un partido de los Devil Rays contra los Mariners, la visión de una figura entre las gradas lo saca de su letargo. Dos filas detrás de la multitud, en el asiento asignado a un invitado especial, alguien le mira fijamente desde el otro lado del televisor. Es el rostro de una persona de su pasado, de hace décadas, de alguien que no debería estar en un partido de béisbolni tampoco en ningún lugar de este planeta. Y así empiezan a desfilar por la pantalla personas de su pasado. Hasta que un día aparece la más terrorífica de todas...
Los mejores títulos de Stephen King en formato audiolibro."
"From the writing team that delivered the bestselling Faithful comes a short fiction eBook original that takes the readers to the ballpark again, and to a world beyond.
Dean Evers, an elderly widower, sits in front of the television with nothing better to do than waste his leftover evenings watching baseball. His adopted Florida baseball team, the Rays, are going strong. Suddenly, in a seat a few rows up beyond the batter, Evers sees the face of someone he knows from decades past, someone who shouldn't be at the ballgame, shouldn't even be on the planet. And so begins a parade of people from Evers's past, people he has wronged, all of them occupying that seat behind home plate. Until one day, he sees someone even closer to home . . .
A FACE IN THE CROWD is a beautifully written story about grief, loneliness and revenge.
(P)2012 Simon & Schuster Audio"
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