King me

July 27, 2012

Stephen King and Stewart O’Nan recently announced a new joint venture.

Shortly after the Boston Red Sox won their first Word Championship since 1918, King and O’Nan published Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season, which was basically a series of back-and-forth emails.

This time it’s a fiction eBook, A Face in The Crowd, which will be released on Aug. 21, according to King’s website.

Given the hype for King’s disappointing 2010 novella, Blockade Billy — as well as the extra round of attention for John Grisham’s Calico Joe, published earlier this year (and don’t get me going again with The Art of Fielding), I’m a bit dubious on this latest contrubution, described as

Dean Evers, an elderly widower, sits in front of the television with nothing better to do than waste his leftover evenings watching baseball. It’s Rays/Mariners, and David Price is breezing through the line-up. Suddenly, in a seat a few rows up beyond the batter, Evers sees the face of someone from decades past, someone who shouldn’t be at the ballgame, shouldn’t be on the planet. And so begins a parade of people from Evers’s past, all of them occupying that seat behind home plate. Until one day Dean Evers sees someone even eerier…

A Face in the Crowd will also be issued as an audiobook.

Although promoted as an ebook, I would imagine it will get the paper treatment at some point. Blockade Billy was handled the same way: ebook followed by print edition.

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