Results for "Joyland" in Literature & Fiction

Les clowns vous ont toujours fait peur ? L'atmosphère des fêtes foraines vous angoisse ? Alors, un petit conseil : ne vous aventurez pas sur une grande roue un soir d'orage.

Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever. Joyland is a brand-new novel and has never previously been published.

Em Joyland, Stephen King mistura mistério, suspense e drama para construir uma história poderosa sobre amar e perder, crescer e envelhecer — e sobre aqueles que não tiveram a chance de experimentar nada disso, pois a morte lhes chegou cedo demais. Carolina do Norte, 1973. O universitário...

It’s 1984 and in the town of South Wakefield, 14-year-old Chris Lane is sure that he can see the future, or at least guess what's inside of Christie Brinkley's mind. Unfortunately, he can't foresee the closing of Joyland, the town’s only video arcade. As the arcade fades from his life, Chris is forced to find a new source of entertainment, and ends up getting more than he bargained for - a summer of teenage lust and violence.

JOYLAND is a whodunit noir crime novel and a haunting ghost story set in the world of an amusement park. It tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a 'carny' in small-town North Carolina and has to confront the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a...

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Short stories and poems that seek to inspire, educate and entertain.

Joyland Poems is a collection of whimsical poems that will spark your imagination and transport you to a place beyond ordinary.