by Stephen King und Stewart O'Nan
© Dec 2004 by Scribner
ISBN: 0 74326 752 4, Hardcover, 432 Seiten
order at:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0743267524/052379122979/
- The essay SK wrote for the New York Times at the beginning of this year's baseball season
- A two page essay by O'Nan
- An index
- Captions for the photographs that start the chapters and quotes from players on the page after the photos.
03/11/04
Bev Vincent (http://www.BevVincent.com), author of THE ROAD TO THE DARK TOWER, posted this news on his message board!
Faithful - In Stores November 21st!
Early in 2004, two writers and Red Sox fans, Stewart O'Nan and Stephen King, decided to chronicle the upcoming season, one of the most hotly anticipated in baseball history. They would sit together at Fenway. They would exchange emails. They would write about the games. And, as it happened, they would witness the greatest comeback ever in sports, and the first Red Sox
championship in eighty-six years, as the team put '86 behind them and eighty-sixed the Curse.
A-Rod. Schilling. Sheffield. Foulke. The hot stove league was smoking. In April, the Sox took six of seven from New York Yankees. Youkilis was the Greek God of Walks. Local boy Mark Bellhorn found his bat. June was a disaster. Then Nomar went to Chicago, Varitek shoved A-Rod, Billy Mueller proved to be a Yankee killer, and this team never looked back, logging an astounding August and a solid September to claim the wild card. In the playoffs they killed the Angels, then ran into those darn Yankees. Who saved the Pennant race? David Ortiz. Who hit the only grand slam? Johnny Damon.
Who's your daddy? Papi is. Down three games to none, down to their last three outs, the Red Sox rose from the dead to make history. Nothing left to do but sweep up. What began as a Sox-filled summer like any other is now a fan's notes for the ages.
>From Publishers Weekly:
Meanwhile, Faithful, the Stephen King/Stewart O' Nan project signed up by Scribner at the beginning of the season whose very title implied a kind of resolve in the face of tribulation (especially Aaron you-know-who) now may be enjoying a boon of a different kind. The book, slated for early December, is up to 50,000 copies ordered as chapters keep getting extended.
"We go into meetings every day and we just kind of throw up our hands and say 'Well, we know it's going to change tomorrow," says Scribner publicity director Suzanne Balaban. "It's hard to imagine this being any more exciting."
King, of whom postseason TV viewers have been getting quick doses (and who, with furrowed visage, seems to be showings signs of the toll of fandom) is writing the book with O'Nan more as a chronological play-by-play than narrative reconstruction. Which may ease the way for it to become "the first instant hardcover" Scribner has ever done, in the phrase of Balaban.
As for potential audience, Scribner's analysis has concluded that "Red Sox Nation" is "20-million strong"--a number likely to contain a certain percentage that will fortunately already have a bandwagon in which to store their copy.
03/11/04
SIGNED FAITHFUL FIRST EDITION - By Stephen King and Stewart O'Nan. Mr. O'Nan is signing special gatefold limited edition cards for the Overlook and YOU! This card features the front page photo of Stephen King and Stewart O'Nan from USA Today recently. This Signed card is FREE with purchase. Faithful with Shipping is $29.95.
08/10/04
Stephen King & Stewart O'Nan in USA Today:
http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2004-10-07-king-redsox_x.htm
23/03/04
* Stephen King & Stewart O'Nan To Write Red Sox Book!
Bev Vincent (http://www.bevvincent.com) was the first to pass this along:
STEWART O¹NAN AND STEPHEN KING TO COLLABORATE ON CHRONICLE OF BOSTON RED SOX
¹04 SEASON
Writers to Create A Fan¹s Notes for the Ages, in Book from Scribner, Due in Late Œ04
It began as an email exchange last summer. Filled with the heady mix of exhilaration and frustration familiar to all Boston Red Sox fans, writer Stewart O¹Nan fired off a note to a fellow fan, Stephen King, who responded with his thoughts on Pedro, Nomar, Manny, Mueller, and Theo.
The 2004 season is the most hotly anticipated in recent baseball history. Noteam has a more central place in the story than the Red Sox--boys of summer with still new ownership, a new wunderkind General Manager, a new field manager, post-season trades for high-priced talent, the memory of their heartbreaking ¹03 finish, and their on-going and legendary rivalry with the
New York Yankees.
O¹Nan and King, lifelong Red Sox addicts, will chronicle the season from spring training and Opening Day through to the highly anticipated events of the fall, in a hardcover book that Scribner will publish in late Œ04. They¹ll go to some games together and each will keep a diary. They¹ll argue or agree about plays and trades, and the result will be a fan¹s notes for
the ages.
³The idea of a book about this year¹s Red Sox by Stewart O¹Nan with participation by Stephen King is the best thing next to a season¹s ticket to Fenway. I know no true baseball fan will be able to resist this classic book,² said Susan Moldow, Executive Vice-President and Publisher of Scribner (and Red Sox fan).
Stewart O¹Nan is the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction including A Prayer For The Dying, Wish You Were Here, and most recently The Night Country, the paperback of which will be published this October. His newest novel, THE GOOD WIFE, is due in February ¹05 from Farrar, Strauss & Giroux.
³I just got back from spring training,² O¹Nan says, ³and the guys are ready. I¹m ready. Everyone¹s ready. This is the year. It¹s do-or-die time.²
Stephen King, is one of America¹s best-known writers, and one of its best-known Red Sox fans. In 2003, he received the National Book Foundation¹s Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. In June, THE DARK TOWER VI: Song of Susannah will be released. This fall, the final volume in his acclaimed Dark Tower series, THE DARK TOWER VII: The Dark Tower, will be published September 21, by Scribner, and his first pop-up children¹s book, a retelling of his 1999 novel, THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM GORDON, will be
published October 26, by Simon and Schuster¹s Children¹s Division.
The book, as yet untitled, was sold to Scribner for North American rights by O¹Nan¹s literary agent, David Gernert (a New York Mets fan). Simon & Schuster Audio will publish simultaneously with the hardcover. Nan Graham, editor-in-chief (and Red Sox fan) will edit the book which promises to galvanize the 20,000,000 members of Red Sox Nation and delight baseball fans worldwide.
Simon & Schuster, part of the entertainment operation of Viacom Inc., is a global leader in the field of general interest publishing, dedicated to providing the best in fiction and nonfiction for consumers of all ages, across all printed, electronic, and multimedia formats. Its divisions
include the Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group, Simon & Schuster Children¹s Publishing, Simon & Schuster Audio, Simon & Schuster Online, and international companies in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit our website at www.simonsays.com
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