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- Hodder & Stoughton
- Hodder & Stoughton
Narrator
Craig WassonRuntime
1hr 18m
Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
From the bestselling writing team comes a short fiction eBook original: What if you were watching your favourite sport on television and the camera swung to a familiar face in the crowd Someone who couldn't possibly be there . . .
From the writing team that delivered the bestselling Faithful comes a short fiction eBook original that takes the readers to the ballpark again, and to a world beyond.
Dean Evers, an elderly widower, sits in front of the television with nothing better to do than waste his leftover evenings watching baseball. His adopted Florida baseball team, the Rays, are going strong. Suddenly, in a seat a few rows up beyond the batter, Evers sees the face of someone he knows from decades past, someone who shouldn't be at the ballgame, shouldn't even be on the planet. And so begins a parade of people from Evers's past, people he has wronged, all of them occupying that seat behind home plate. Until one day, he sees someone even closer to home . . .
A FACE IN THE CROWD is a beautifully written story about grief, loneliness and revenge.
Praise for A Face in the Crowd
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America's greatest living novelist - Lee Child on Stephen King
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An incredibly gifted writer - Guardian on Stephen King
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Fine stories to take with us into the night - Neil Gaiman on FULL DARK, NO STARS by Stephen King
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A sophisticated literary craftman - Robert McCrum, Observer on Stephen King
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A gorgeous fable, a stunning meditation and a hope-filled Valentine. - Boston Globe on The Odds by Stewart O'Nan
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Riveting . . . O'Nan has written the perfect summer-by-the-lake read - Chicago Tribune on Emily, Alone by Stewart O'Nan
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O'Nan is certainly among the strongest American writers of his generation - Washington Post Book World
Stephen King
STEPHEN KING is the author of more than seventy books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent titles include Fairy Tale, Holly, and If It Bleeds, all number one Sunday Times bestsellers.
Many of his titles are the basis for major motion pictures including IT, Stand By Me (adapted from The Body) and The Shawshank Redemption, which is IMDb's top-rated movie of all time.
King is the recipient of The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence 2022, the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.
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