Bag of Bones

by Stephen King

Mike Noonan, an author who has had writer's block since his wife died four years ago, retreats to a country house in Maine. Once there, he becomes entangled in a complex relationship between a 3-year-old girl, her young mother, and her grandfather, and, since this is, in fact, a Stephen King novel, Mike is also in for sleepless nights haunted by secretive pasts and the ghosts that those secrets have left in their wake.

Editions of Bag of Bones

ISBN 9780786217205	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Thorndike Pr	Date 1999	Price $1.00	Good
ISBN 9781844564712	Binding/Format Digital	Publisher Hodder Headline Limited	Date	Price None Available
ISBN 9780671024239	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Pocket Books	Date 1999	Price $1.00	Good
ISBN 9780743551755	Binding/Format Compact Disc	Publisher Simon & Schuster	Date 2005	Price $64.95	New
ISBN 9780671043063	Binding/Format Compact Disc	Publisher Simon & Schuster	Date 1998	Price None Available
ISBN 9780671582340	Binding/Format Audio Cassette	Publisher Simon & Schuster	Date 1998	Price $2.66	Fine
ISBN 9780684853505	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Simon & Schuster	Date 1998	Price $1.00	Very Good
ISBN 9780786217212	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Thorndike Pr	Date 1999	Price None Available
ISBN 9780613171007	Binding/Format Prebinding	Publisher Bt Bound	Date 1999	Price $17.88	Fine
ISBN 9781439106211	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Scribner	Date 2008	Price $3.90	Fine

Publisher Notes

Plagued by vivid nightmares of the summer house he had shared with his late wife, grieving widower Mike Noonan returns to his former Maine getaway, only to find a town in the grip of a ruthless millionaire and tormented by a series of ghostly visitations. Reprint. 150,000 first printing.

Media Reviews

"As brilliantly as [King] crafts horror and suspense, he's not so hot with the supernatural. His spectral universe lacks the internal consistency of Lovecraft's or the ambiguous subjectivity of Poe's....[I]n the end, the book falls apart in a fusillade of bullets and a gathering of ghosts that spoil the delicate tension that King has laboured for 400 pages to establish....Like THE SHINING, another nearly great novel held captive by King's ghostly preoccupations, BAG OF BONES just misses being more than a page turner."

First Line

On a very hot day in August of 1994, my wife told me she was going down to the Derry Rite Aid to pick up a refill on her sinus medicine prescription--this is stuff you can buy over the counter these days, I believe. I'd finished my writing for the day and offered to pick it up for her. She said thanks, but she wanted to get a piece of fish at the supermarket next door anyway; two birds with one stone and all of that. She blew a kiss at me off the palm of her hand and went out. The next time I saw her, she was on TV. That's how you identify the dead here in Derry--no walking down a subterranean corridor with green tiles on the walls and long fluorescent bars overhead, no naked body rolling out of a chilly drawer on casters; you just go into an office marked PRIVATE and look at a TV screen and say yep or nope.

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