{"product_id":"fairy-tale","title":"USED: Fairy Tale","description":"\u003cp\u003eA #1 New York Times Bestseller and New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLegendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for that world or ours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a horrific accident when he was seven, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself—and his dad. When Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharlie starts doing jobs for Mr. Bowditch and loses his heart to Radar. Then, when Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie a cassette tape telling a story no one would believe. What Bowditch knows, and has kept secret all his long life, is that inside the shed is a portal to another world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKing’s storytelling in Fairy Tale soars. This is a magnificent and terrifying tale in which good is pitted against overwhelming evil, and a heroic boy—and his dog—must lead the battle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEarly in the Pandemic, King asked himself: “What could you write that would make you happy?”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“As if my imagination had been waiting for the question to be asked, I saw a vast deserted city—deserted but alive. I saw the empty streets, the haunted buildings, a gargoyle head lying overturned in the street. I saw smashed statues (of what I didn’t know, but I eventually found out). I saw a huge, sprawling palace with glass towers so high their tips pierced the clouds. Those images released the story I wanted to tell.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stephen King","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53788186018005,"sku":"9781668002179","price":25.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0780\/5471\/9701\/files\/9781668002179.jpg?v=1778619782","url":"https:\/\/nextchapterleduc.ca\/products\/fairy-tale","provider":"Next Chapter","version":"1.0","type":"link"}