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Book Review of Bag of Bones

Bag of Bones
Bag of Bones
Author: Stephen King
Genre: Horror
Book Type: Paperback
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Four yearsafter the sudden death of his wife,forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving.Unable to write and plaguedby vivid nightmares set at the western Maine summerhouse he calls Sara Laughs,Mike reluctantly returns to the lakeside getaway.There,he finds his beloved yankee town held in the grip of a powerful millionaire,Max Devore,whose vindictive purpose is to take his three-year-old granddaughter,Kyra away from her widowed young mother,Mattie.As Mike is drawn into Mattie and Kyra's struggle,as he falls in love with both of them,he is also drawn into the mystery of Sara Laughs,now the site of ghostly visitations and escalating terrors.What are the forces that have been unleashed here-and what do they want of Mike Noonan?