The Colorado Kid

by Stephen King, Jeffrey DeMunn (Read by)

Overview

Stephanie McCann is a journalism student at University of Ohio. Her summer internship brings her to Moose-Lookit Island, ME where she tags along after Vince Teague and David Bowie—two salty newsmen who've been running The Weekly Islander together for forty years.

Over those decades, the old guys have seen it all. With Stephanie's help, they review a cold case involving "The Colorado Kid"—an anonymous tourist visiting the island who turned up dead in the Spring of 1980.

The Colorado Kid is classic King. He deftly weaves a charming and funny New England yarn featuring good old fashioned Island storytelling.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780743570916
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster Audio
Publication date:	01/22/2008
Edition description:	Unabridged
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 5.75(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, and Doctor Sleep are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.

Hometown:

Bangor, Maine

Date of Birth:

September 21, 1947

Place of Birth:

Portland, Maine

Education:

B.S., University of Maine at Orono, 1970

Website:

http://www.stephenking.com

Editorial Reviews

this little meditation is absolutely something that should be read by all crime and mystery fans. Stephen King is a master, and this is one of his most finely-wrought works” - The Crime Review

“a gentle mystery, one that explores the genre as well as small town life in a way that I found utterly beguiling” - SciFi and Scary 

“Richly textured…one of [King’s] best.”
— Chicago Tribune

“A riveting tale.”
— U.S. News & World Report

“Intriguing…wry and lively [and] artfully detailed.”
— USA Today

“A daring experiment…King’s prose is engaging and propulsive.”
— This Week

“The ending comes as a most daring shock…I loved it.”
— The Guardian (UK)

“A small masterpiece…[The Colorado Kid] deserves in both its 
conception and its execution a place beside the classic tales of Poe, 
Conan Doyle, Stevenson, and the 20th-century masters of pulps.”
— Village Voice

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