© 2006 by Stephen King
Originalausgabe:
© 2006 by Scribner
ISBN 0743289412, Hardcover, 528 pages
© 2006 by Thorndike Press
ISBN 078628966X, Largeprint, Hardcover
© 2006 by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
ISBN 0340898933, Hardcover, 624 pages
© 2007 by Pocket
ISBN-10 1416523359, ISBN-13: 978-1416523352, Paperback, 688 pages
Deutsche Ausgabe:
© 2006 by Heyne
ISBN 3453265327, Hardcover, 700 Seiten
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Ein Auszug aus dem Roman wurde bereits unter dem Titel "Lisey and the Madman" in "McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber Of Astonishing Stories" veröffentlicht.
Here's what King says about the book in a long interview recently posted at Guardian.co.uk:
"He has another book written, though he says it's 'a mess,' and has yet to decide whether anybody else should read it. It is about a writer's widow, and came about when he returned home from his hospitalisation for pneumonia to find his wife redecorating his office. "My wife says to me: 'Don't go in your office'. Like Bluebeard or something. I said, 'Why not?' She says: 'It's just a mess in there and it will really upset you.' One night I couldn't sleep and I went out there and she was right - it upset me. The furniture was all gone. The books were off the shelves. Everything was in boxes. It was just like a room that has been cleared out following an old person's death. It got me thinking about my own death and what would happen afterwards."
The entire interview can be read here:
http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/crime/story/0,6000,1306991,00.html
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DAS BÖSE KOMMT NACHTS. - DAS HERZ STIRBT ZULETZT.
Liseys berühmter Mann ist tot - und sein Nachlass weckt albtraumhafte Erinnerungen und Ahnungen in ihr, die bald grausame Gewissheit werden ... In Stephen Kings vielleicht dichtestem und persönlichstem Roman geht es um die Geheimsprache der Liebe und die Allgegenwart des Wahnsinns.
Lisey ist seit zwei Jahren Witwe. Bereits lange vor seinem Tod hat ihr Mann Scott Landon - ein hochangesehener Romanautor - für sie eine Spur mit Hinweisen ausgelegt, die sie nun immer tiefer in seine von Dämonen bevölkerte Vergangenheit führt. Stück für Stück werden sorgsam verdrängte Erinnerungen in ihr wach: an eine andere Welt, die sie einst mit Scott besucht hat, tagsüber ein märchenhaftes Paradies, während nachts überall das Böse lauert. Ob Scott dort auf sie wartet, damit sie ihn ins Leben zurückholt? Plötzlich tritt ein Verrückter auf den Plan, der sich Zack McCool nennt und es auf Scotts schriftstellerischen Nachlass abgesehen hat. Und um seine Forderungen zu bekräftigen, verletzt er Lisey auf bestialische Weise ...
Editorial Reviews
From Booklist
In the two years since her husband Scott's sudden death, professors and collectors mad to lay their hands on his unpublished manuscripts and letters, those of one of the most successful and lauded writers of his generation, have besieged Lisey (rhymes with CeeCee) Landon. The last of them, initially ingratiating, wound up threatening her. That decided her to prepare Scott's papers for donation to an appropriate archive. In the midst of doing that, she gets an answering machine message, then a telephone call and a written note, as well as a dead cat in the mailbox, from a grammatically challenged man who says he'll "hurt [her] places you didn't let the boys to touch at the junior high dances." Fortunately, she's been hearing Scott's voice lately, more than in recollection, and it leads her back to a place, another dimension, that he'd told her about but that she'd forgotten. The boy Scott and his long-dead brother went there to escape their sometimes psychopathic father; the grown-up Scott, to heal from many wounds, including those from a shooting that would have been fatal if Lisey hadn't intervened. It is paradisiacally beautiful but dangerous at night, when weird, savage creatures hunt in it. In this long, often long-feeling, utterly Stephen Kingish novel, Scott's strange and eventful past is thoroughly recovered, and Lisey's strength is revealed and confirmed, though not before the maniac does indeed hurt her. The book is also, perhaps, a parable about love and imagination that affirms love as the more salvific of the two. Ray Olson
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Review
"Lisey's Story is a wondrous novel of marriage, a love story steeped in strength and tenderness, and cast with the most vivid, touching and believable characters in recent literature. I came to adore Lisey Landon and her sisters, I ached for Scott and all he'd been through, and when I finally reached the bittersweet and heartfelt conclusion, my first thought was that I wanted to start over again from the beginning, for it felt as if I were saying good-bye to old friends. This is Stephen King at his finest and most generous, a dazzling novel that you'll thank yourself for reading long after the final page is turned."
-- Nicholas Sparks, author of The Notebook
"In Lisey's Story, Stephen King makes bold, brilliant use of his satanic storytelling gift, his angelic ear for language, and above all his incomparable ability to find the epic in the ordinary, to present us with the bloody and fabulous tale of an ordinary marriage. In his hands the long, passionate union of Scott and Lisey Landon--of any long-lived marriage, by implication--becomes a fantastic kingdom, with its own geography and language, its dark and stirring chronicle of heroes and monsters, its tragedies, griefs and glories. King has been getting me to look at the world with terror and wonder since I was fifteen years old, and I have never been more persuaded than by this book of his greatness."
-- Michael Chabon, author of The Final Solution: A Story of Detection and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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