'The New York Times Book Review' Fascinating.A frenzied, multilayered, ever-accelerating nightmare. has lost none of his ability to mine terror from the ordinary.Ī tour de force - has more passages of power and imagination than some writers produce in a lifetime. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.įascinating.A frenzied, multilayered, ever-accelerating nightmare. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, 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. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. 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. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His recent work includes Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, 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. Then touring until 10 June.Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers.

Through the disintegration in a care home of a proud old warrior (portrayed by the same actor who earlier played the kookiest of the kids), it makes a chilling existential point: that senility is the comic waywardness of childhood replayed as tragedy and it is coming for us all.Īt Brixton House, London, until 6 May. Elsewhere, the doubling tells its own story, of how age and environment constantly reframe experience. Only Lukwesa Mwamba plays a single role, her entrancing Darling gleaming in a gold frock against the darkness of Ingrid Hu’s minimalist design. Choreographer Ricardo da Silva deserves a big shout-out for leading the cast on this very physical journey. The clarity of the storytelling enables the six actors in Monique Touko’s supple production to fluently switch race, age and gender, with their accents and body language becoming ever more homogenised and American. Physical journey … Munashe Chirisa, Anashe Danai, Lukwesa Mwamba and Kalungi Ssebandeke.

Dreamcatcher novel review