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Lisey's Story
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Lisey's Story (2006) (edit title/settings)

by Stephen King (Author) (edit contributors)

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Lisey Debusher Landon lost her husband Scott two years ago, after a twenty-five year marriage of the most profound and sometimes frightening intimacy. Scott was an award-winning, bestselling novelist and a very complicated man. Early in their relationship, before they married, Lisey had to... read more

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Lisey's Story is the story of Lisey (pronounced LEE-see) Landon, who is the widow of a famous and wildly successful novelist, Scott Landon. The book tells two stories—Lisey's story in the present, and the story of her dead husband's life, as remembered by Lisey during the course of the... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Lisey's Story is the story of Lisey (pronounced LEE-see) Landon, who is the widow of a famous and wildly successful novelist, Scott Landon. The book tells two stories—Lisey's story in the present, and the story of her dead husband's life, as remembered by Lisey during the course of the novel.

It has been two years since her husband's death, and Lisey is in the process of cleaning out her dead husband's writing area. A series of events occurs that causes Lisey to begin facing certain realities about her husband that she had repressed and forgotten. As Lisey is stalked, terrorized, and then mutilated by an insane fan of her husband's, Lisey begins recalling her husband's past—how he came from a family with a history of horrible mental illness that manifested as either an uncontrollable homicidal mania or as a deep catatonia, how he had a special gift, an ability to transport himself to another world, called by Scott Landon "Boo'ya Moon," how Scott Landon's brother was murdered by his father when his brother manifested an incurable insanity, and finally how Scott Landon murdered his father to save his father from the madness that had finally taken him over.

As the novel progresses we see the complexity of Lisey's marriage to Scott, and their deep and abiding love for each other. The novel takes place over a very short period of time—a matter of days—but the real story is told in Lisey's remembrances of her husband, her ability to harness his special power to save herself (and her sister), and finally to find the gift that her dead husband had left for her in Boo'ya Moon—a story just for Lisey. Lisey's story.

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To the public eye, the spouses of well-know writers are all but invisible, and no one knew it better than Lisey Landon.

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Part 1: Bool Hunt
I. Lisey and Amanda (Everything the Same)
II. Lisey and The Madman (Darkness Loves Him)
III. Lisey and The Silver Spade (Wait for the Wind to Change)
IV.Lisey and The Blood-Bool (All the Bad-Gunky)

Part 2: Sowisa
V. Lisey and The Long, Long Thursday (Stations of the Bool)
VI. Lisey and The Professor (This Is What It Gets You)
VII. Lisey and The Law (Obsession and The Exhausted Mind)
VIII. Lisey and Scott (Under the Yum-Yum Tree)
IX. Lisey and The Black Prince of The Incunks (The Duty of Love)
X. Lisey and The Arguments Against Insanity (The Good Brother)
XI. Lisey and The Pool (Shhhh-- Now You Must Be Still)
XII. Lisey at Greenlawn (The Hollyhocks)
XIII. Lisey and Amanda (The Sister Thing)
XIV. Lisey and Scott (Babyluv)
XV. Lisey and The Long Boy (Pafko at the Wall)

Part 3: Lisey's Story
XVI. Lisey and The Story Tree (Scott Has His Say)

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  • Bool: A game or treasure hunt, leading to a prize determined by the one setting up the bool.
  • Gomer: A catatonic person

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 6 of 11 in Publishers Weekly Bestselling Novels In 2006. (authoritative list)

Preceded by HANNIBAL RISING, and followed by Cell.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Stephen King (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Scribner
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2006
ISBN: 9780743289412
Page Count: 528

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  • Library of Congress: PS3561.I483 L57 2006
  • Dewey: 813.54

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Reading Level: Young Adults

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