Heart-Shaped Box LP - Large Print by Joe Hill (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Wild, mesmerizing, perversely witty....A Valentine from hell." --Janet Maslin, New York Times The publication of Joe Hill's beautifully textured, deliciously scary debut novel Heart-Shaped Box was greeted with the sort of overwhelming critical acclaim that is rare for a work of skin-crawling supernatural terror. It was cited as a Best Book of the Year by Atlanta magazine, the Tampa Tribune, the St. Louis Post Dispatch, and the Village Voice, to name but a few. Award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling Neil Gaiman of The Sandman, The Graveyard Book, and Anansi Boys fame calls Joe Hill's story of a jaded rock star haunted by a ghost he purchased on the internet, "relentless, gripping, powerful." Open this Heart-Shaped Box from two-time Bram Stoker Award-winner Hill if you dare and see what all the well-deserved hoopla is about.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>"Wild, mesmerizing, perversely witty....A Valentine from hell."<br /> --Janet Maslin, <em>New York</em><em> Times</em></p> </p>The publication of Joe Hill's beautifully textured, deliciously scary debut novel <em>Heart-Shaped Box </em>was greeted with the sort of overwhelming critical acclaim that is rare for a work of skin-crawling supernatural terror. It was cited as a Best Book of the Year by <em>Atlanta</em> magazine, the <em>Tampa Tribune</em>, the <em>St. Louis Post Dispatch</em>, and the <em>Village Voice</em>, to name but a few. Award-winning, #1 <em>New York Times</em> bestselling Neil Gaiman of <em>The Sandman, The Graveyard Book, </em>and <em>Anansi Boys </em>fame calls Joe Hill's story of a jaded rock star haunted by a ghost he purchased on the internet, "relentless, gripping, powerful." Open this <em>Heart-Shaped Box </em>from two-time Bram Stoker Award-winner Hill if you dare and see what all the well-deserved hoopla is about.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>Judas Coyne is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals . . . a used hangman's noose . . . a snuff film. An aging death-metal rock god, his taste for the unnatural is as widely known to his legions of fans as the notorious excesses of his youth. But nothing he possesses is as unlikely or as dreadful as his latest purchase, an item he discovered on the Internet: </p><p>I will sell my stepfather's ghost to the highest bidder . . .</p><p>For a thousand dollars, Jude has become the owner of a dead man's suit, said to be haunted by a restless spirit. But what UPS delivers to his door in a black heart-shaped box is no metaphorical ghost, no benign conversation piece. Suddenly the suit's previous owner is everywhere: behind the bedroom door . . . seated in Jude's restored Mustang . . . staring out from his widescreen TV. Waiting--with a gleaming razor blade on a chain dangling from one hand . . .</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Powerful . . . a fast-paced plot that crackles with expertly planted surprises and revelations . . . a truly memorable debut."--<em>Publishers Weekly</em> <strong>(starred review)</strong><br><br>"A fast-paced journey on wheels borrowed from hell's used-car lot, and there aren't a lot of comfort breaks...The pictures [Hill] painted colored my dreams and darkened my mood even after I'd put the book down."--<em>Cleveland Plain Dealer</em><br><br>[Hill]'s got horror down pat, and his debut is hair-raising fun."--<em>Kirkus Reviews</em><br><br>"A relentlessly scary ghost story."--Bookseller (London)<br><br>"You can't go wrong with Heart-Shaped Box." Top Five Fiction-Books of 2007--The Observer<br>
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