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NOS4A2

Pages
995
Published
2013
Language
English

Synopsis

NOS4A2 is a 2013 horror novel by Joe Hill about Victoria "Vic" McQueen, who discovers as a child that she has a supernatural gift for finding things — and a covered bridge that lets her travel to wherever she needs to go, no matter the real-world distance.

Charlie Manx has a matching, darker gift. Driving his vintage Rolls-Royce Wraith, the centuries-old Manx can reach a place called Christmasland, an otherworldly amusement park of his own imagining where it is always Christmas Eve and misery is forbidden. He builds it by abducting children and slowly transforming them into something no longer quite human. At seventeen, Vic rides her bike straight into Manx's path and narrowly survives their first encounter, which lands him in prison.

Years later, Vic is an adult with a son, a strained relationship, and a career built on turning her strange gift into a series of children's books — while trying to convince herself that what happened with Manx wasn't real. When Manx returns from apparent death and sets his sights on her family, Vic has to use her own supernatural road one more time to save her son from Christmasland.

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About the author

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Joe Hill

Hill is the second child of authors Stephen and Tabitha King. He grew up in Bangor, Maine. His younger brother Owen is also a writer. Hill has three sons. Hill chose to use an abbreviated form of his given name (a reference to executed labor leader Joe Hill, for whom he was named) in 1997, out of a desire to succeed based solely on his own merits instead of as the son of Stephen King. After achieving a degree of independent success, Hill publicly confirmed his identity in 2007 after an articl...

Characters

Victoria "Vic" McQueenProtagonist

A woman who can travel via a covered bridge that connects to places she needs to find; illustrator of a children's book series.

Charlie ManxAntagonist

A centuries-old man who abducts children and takes them to Christmasland in his Rolls-Royce Wraith.

Bing PartridgeAntagonist

Manx's disturbed human accomplice.

Maggie LeighSupporting

A librarian with her own supernatural gift who helps Vic track Manx.

Charles Talent ManxSupporting
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