![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() King started toying with the book - about a small New England town named Chester’s Mill that suddenly becomes trapped beneath an invisible, impenetrable, inexplicable dome - in 1976, and many faint traces of The Stand course throughout. The novel is a monster, but it moves like a short story, devoid of the bloat and wordiness that has plagued the beloved author’s latter-period work. “I tried to write a book that would keep the pedal consistently to the metal,” Stephen King writes in an afterword to Under the Dome, his massive new novel - his 48th! - an explanation for why you will carry this heavy, bulky book everywhere, eager to gobble up a few more pages whenever you can. ![]()
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