{"product_id":"fairy-tale-9781668024546b","title":"Fairy Tale","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eA #1 \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e Bestseller and\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e New York Times Book Review \u003c\/span\u003eEditors' Choice!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLegendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for that world or ours.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a horrific accident when he was seven, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself—and his dad. When Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharlie starts doing jobs for Mr. Bowditch and loses his heart to Radar. Then, when Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie a cassette tape telling a story no one would believe. What Bowditch knows, and has kept secret all his long life, is that inside the shed is a portal to another world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKing’s storytelling in \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eFairy Tale\u003c\/span\u003e soars. This is a magnificent and terrifying tale in which good is pitted against overwhelming evil, and a heroic boy—and his dog—must lead the battle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEarly in the Pandemic, King asked himself: “What could you write that would make you happy?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“As if my imagination had been waiting for the question to be asked, I saw a vast deserted city—deserted but alive. I saw the empty streets, the haunted buildings, a gargoyle head lying overturned in the street. I saw smashed statues (of what I didn’t know, but I eventually found out). I saw a huge, sprawling palace with glass towers so high their tips pierced the clouds. Those images released the story I wanted to tell.”","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42817448804432,"sku":"9781668024546B","price":7.49,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781668024546-l.jpg?v=1785864930","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/en-ca\/products\/fairy-tale-9781668024546b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}