{"product_id":"fairy-tale","title":"Fairy Tale","description":"\u003cp\u003eA #1 New York Times Bestseller and New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLegendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for that world or ours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a horrific accident when he was seven, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself—and his dad. When Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharlie starts doing jobs for Mr. Bowditch and loses his heart to Radar. Then, when Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie a cassette tape telling a story no one would believe. What Bowditch knows, and has kept secret all his long life, is that inside the shed is a portal to another world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMagnificent, terrifying, and “spellbinding…packed with glorious flights of imagination and characteristic tenderness about childhood, Fairy Tale is vintage King at his finest” (Esquire).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Good, evil, a kingdom to save, monsters to slay—these are the stuff that page-turners are made from.” —Laura Miller, Slate\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52949384790323,"sku":"9781668002193","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/6181\/5859\/files\/9781668002193.jpg?v=1768319852","url":"https:\/\/www.bluebirdcrozet.com\/products\/fairy-tale","provider":"Bluebird \u0026 Company Crozet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}