| Drunken Fireworks Contributor(s): King, Stephen (Author), Sample, Tim (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1442389648 ISBN-13: 9781442389649 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio OUR PRICE: $13.49 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: June 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Thrillers - Suspense - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Humorous - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.1" W x 5.9" (0.20 lbs) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Winner of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award 2016 Audie Award Finalist for Original Work A classic Stephen King short story from the bestselling collection The Bazaar of Bad Dreams Alden McCausland and his mother are what they call "accident rich"; thanks to an unexpected life-insurance policy payout and a winning Big Maine Millions scratcher, Alden and his Ma are able to spend their summers down by Lake Abenaki, idly drinking their days away in a three-room cabin with an old dock and a lick of a beach. Across the lake, they can see what "real rich" looks like: the Massimo family's Twelve Pines Camp, the big white mansion with guest house and tennis court that Alden's Ma says is paid for by "ill-gotten gains" courtesy of Massimo Construction. When Alden's holiday-weekend sparklers and firecrackers set off what over the next few years comes to be known as the Fourth of July Arms Race, he learns how far he and the Massimos will go to win an annual neighborly rivalry--one that lands Alden in the Castle County jail. Read by beloved Down East storyteller Tim Sample--praised by Stephen King for his "wit and talent and good-heartedness"--Drunken Fireworks makes for explosive audio listening. |
Contributor Bio(s): 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. |