Joyland
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Joyland
AUTHOR:
King, Stephen, 1947-
ISBN:
9781781162644
EDITION:
First Hard Case Crime ed.
PUBLICATION_INFO:
London : Hard Case Crime/Titan Books, 2013
PHYSICAL_DESC:
283 p. ; 21 cm
ABSTRACT:
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.
SUBJECT:
| City and town life -- North Carolina -- Fiction |
| Amusement parks -- Fiction |
| College students -- Fiction |
| Cold cases (Criminal investigation) -- Fiction |
| Mystery fiction |
| Ghost stories |
BIBSUMMARY:
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.