- Horror, fiction, time jump
Arthur Oakes is a reader, a dreamer, and a student at Rackham College, Maine, renowned for its frosty winters, exceptional library, and beautiful buildings. But his idyll—and burgeoning romance with Gwen Underfoot—is shattered when a local drug dealer and her partner corner him into one of the worst crimes he can imagine: stealing rare books from the college library.
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Contemporary, grave, bleak and plot-driven.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Joe Hill
- First published
- 2025
- Pages
- 837
- Publisher
- William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, HarperCollins Brasil
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- Portuguese, English
- ISBN
- 9780062200600
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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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