- Thriller, Fiction, Murder, Revenge
Joe Hill has been hailed as "a major player in 21st-century fantastic fiction" (Washington Post); "a new master in the field of suspense" (James Rollins); "one of the most confident and assured new voices in horror and dark fantasy to emerge in recent years (Publishers Weekly); a writer who "builds character invitingly and plants an otherworldly surprise around every corner" (New York Times).This gifted and…
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Contemporary, grave, classical in form and relentless.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Joe Hill
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 436
- Publisher
- Suma de Letras, William Morrow Paperbacks, HarperLuxe
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780061147968
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Hill is the second child of authors Stephen and Tabitha King. He grew up in Bangor, Maine. His younger brother Owen is also a writer. Hill has three sons. Hill chose to use an abbreviated form of his given name (a reference to executed labor leader Joe Hill, for whom he was named) in 1997, out of a desire to succeed based solely on his own merits instead of as the son of Stephen King. After achieving a degree of independent success, Hill publicly confirmed his identity in 2007 after an article the previous year in Variety broke his cover (although online speculation about Hill's family background had been appearing since 2005). Joe Hill is a past recipient of the Ray Bradbury Fellowship. He
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