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Gwendy's Button Box

The Button Box, Book 1

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Gwendy's Button Box

By: Stephen King, Richard Chizmar
Narrated by: Maggie Siff
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Includes a conversation between Stephen King and Richard Chizmar.

Stephen King teams up with longtime friend and award-winning author Richard Chizmar for the first time in this original, chilling novella that revisits the town of Castle Rock - paired on audio with King's Edgar Award-nominated story 'The Music Room'.

The little town of Castle Rock, Maine, has witnessed some strange events and unusual visitors over the years, but there is one story that has never been told...until now.

There are three ways up to Castle View from the town of Castle Rock: Route 117, Pleasant Road and the Suicide Stairs. Every day in the summer of 1974, 12-year-old Gwendy Peterson has taken the stairs, which are held by strong (if time-rusted) iron bolts and zigzag up the cliffside. At the top of the stairs, Gwendy catches her breath and listens to the shouts of the kids on the playground. From a bit farther away comes the chink of an aluminium bat hitting a baseball as the Senior League kids practice for the Labour Day charity game.

One day a stranger calls to Gwendy: 'Hey, girl. Come on over here for a bit. We ought to palaver, you and me.' On a bench in the shade sits a man in black jeans, a black coat like for a suit, and a white shirt unbuttoned at the top. On his head is a small, neat black hat. The time will come when Gwendy has nightmares about that hat....

Journey back to Castle Rock again in this chilling new novella by Stephen King, best-selling author of The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, and Richard Chizmar, award-winning author of A Long December.

©2017 Stephen King and Richard Chizmar. 'The Music Room' © 2016 Stephen King. (P)2017 Simon & Schuster, Inc.
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A great coming of age story about a girl with the world’s power at her fingertips. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. A successful collaboration.

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Thank you Stephen King & Thank you Richard Chismar gust love Gwendy's Button Box already chasing the sequels
Thank you Maggie Siff for Reading to me much appreciated everyone 💜💜💜

Gwendy's Button Box Stephen King,Richard Chismar

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I thoroughly enjoyed the narration. and even though the story was brief, I did appreciate Gwendy.
Also loved the cameo; it's always a treat when a villain becomes a little more three dimensional.

Thanks Gents, it was a great read.

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it was good, short for the $ but good maybe wrap all the gwendy books into one for the price

good

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love listening to the story's on audible.
Stephen king is our favorite author we have most of what he released and look forward each year to the net one.

great story , another one from the best authors

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A short story for the most part, interesting read with some sinister feels. A good start to the genre if you haven't read too much SK or much suspense/horror etc genre books. Fairly tame but a thought provoking story, how would you use the box?

Quick, interesting story, thought provoking.

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