Joyland
by: Stephen King
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Product Details
Category - Fiction / General Fiction
Format - Paperback
Condition - Excellent
Listed - 10 months ago
Views - 6
Ships From - California
Est. Publication Date - Jun 2013
Seller Description
No spine creases or markings. Just a bit of wear in the corner
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Joyland
ISBN: 9781781162644
Publisher Description
In a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, 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 wi...
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Nostalgia
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stephenking
horror
mystery
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Pangoer
1 book review
Jun 11, 2023
Beautiful coming of age story, King really shows his writing range with this gem.
Pamela M
275 book reviews
Jul 8, 2023
Twenty-one year old protagonist Devon got his heart broken by a girl, so he decided to work in a carnival for the summer of '73. It was a summer to remember, as he got to save two lives in separate occasions while in the carnival: he administered Heimlich Manuever to a choking young girl (before Hei...
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Brittany Ravenscroft
99 book reviews
Jul 22, 2023
I wanted to like this so much, but it just fell flat for me. I didn’t feel that the “scary/creepy” aspects of the book weren’t scary or creepy at all.
I did really like the main character, and getting to see him throughout his life was nice. I just expected it to be more horror less love story.
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