Our protagonist Scott Carey is a very King-ish type of guy: a good-natured dude who works happily in IT, has come to terms with his recent divorce and has many friends, which allows for a sense of community a little at odds with the much darker, freakier things that go on in Castle Rock. Set in King’s favourite fictional town of Castle Rock (of the King-influenced-but-not-written TV series of the same name), it’s built upon a strange, Twilight Zone-type premise, although this is, again, a leaping-off point for one of this beloved writer’s humanist character pieces and pointed social critiques. The impossibly prolific King’s latest comes soon after his epic collaboration with his son Owen ( Sleeping Beauties) and his similarly lengthy solo effort The Outsider, and understandably and forgivably it’s a slightly shorter affair and a mere brisk novella.
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