- Roadside rest areas, Fiction, New York Times bestseller, Fiction, horror
At Mile 81 on the Maine Turnpike is a boarded-up rest stop, a place where high school kids drink and get into the kind of trouble high school kids have always gotten into. It's the place where Pete Simmons, armed only with the magnifying glass he got for his tenth birthday, finds a discarded bottle of vodka in the boarded up burger shack and drinks enough to pass out.
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Intimate, classical in form, grave and unpretentious.
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Stephen King
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 70
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton, Scribner
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781451665604
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Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, and many have been adapted into films, television series, miniseries, and comic books. King has published 63 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman, and five non-fiction books. He has also written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in book collections. King has received Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, and British Fantasy Society Awards. In 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded him the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to A
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