| Riding the Bullet Contributor(s): King, Stephen (Author), Hamilton, Josh (Read by) |
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ISBN: 0743525876 ISBN-13: 9780743525879 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: May 2002 Annotation: King is at his short--but not sweet--best in this novella about a college student whose mother is dying in a Maine hospital. The student hitches a ride to get to her, but the driver who picks him up makes a deadly detour. Unabridged. 2 CDs. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Horror - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.84" W x 7.12" (0.32 lbs) 2 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A Stephen King ghost story in the grand tradition, Riding the Bullet is the ultimate warning about the dangers of hitchhiking. A college student's mother is dying in a Maine hospital. When he hitches a ride to see her, the driver is not who he appears to be. Soon the journey veers off into a dark landscape that could only be drawn by Stephen King. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hamilton, Josh: - Josh Hamilton's films include Diggers, Kicking and Screaming, The House of Yes, Alive, Online, and Outsourced. New York Stage work includes The Coast of Utopia, HurlyBurly, Proof, This is Our Youth, The Waverly Gallery, The Cider House Rules, As Bees in Honey Drown, and Suburbia.King, Stephen: - Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and an AT&T Audience Network original television series). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower and It are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King. |