Just After Sunset: Stories
by Stephen King
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Author: Stephen KingEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-11-11
ISBN: 1416584080
Number of pages: 367
Publisher: Scribner
Book Reviews of Just After Sunset: Stories
Book Review: Good. Not Kings best, but very good.
Summary: 3 Stars
Overall, I have to say - not Kings best collection of short stories.... The first half of the collection seems to be filled with what are essentially throwaway stories. well written and constructed, but not gripping in any way - technically good but lacking any soul. Then the reader gets to the story "N."... and things change. "N." is perhaps one of the best written modern Lovecraftian stories I have seen this side of Edgar Rice Burroughs. The stories that come after that are uniformly good - with one or two truly great ones. "The Things they left behind" is mildly sappy, but heartfelt and worth reading. "Graduation Day" is fun, but I feel it's oddly placed, being right after "The Things they left behind"... But I won't hold that against it... "The New York Times at special low prices" (I might have the title of that one wrong) is really good. And the last story "A Very Tight Place" is just pure King-Gore that made me cringe a few times, and is also a brilliantly constructed allegorical tale to boot...
I still can't say that the book is worth the price in hardcover, but it is well worth reading. Overall, the collection is a solid 6 out of 10 stars. If the first half had been cut out, it would have been a 8.5 bordering on 9 out of 10.
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Summary of Just After Sunset: Stories
Stephen King-who has written more than fifty books, dozens of number one New York Times bestsellers, and many unforgettable movies-delivers an astonishing collection of short stories, his first since Everything's Eventual six years ago. 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-a-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.
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