Bag of Bones (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
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- Author: Stephen King
- First Published: 1998
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Suspense
- Subjects: Mothers, Parents and children, Murder or homicide, Marriage, Ghosts or apparitions, Writing, Novelists, Death or dying, Creative process
- Locales: Maine
Several years after his wife, Jo, died suddenly, best-selling author Mike Noonan returns to Sara Laughs, their summer home in Maine, to try to defeat the writer's block that he suffered soon after this tragedy. However, Sara Laughs seems to be haunted, as refrigerator magnets are mysteriously used to communicate to Noonan. The house is named after Sara Tidwell, a blues singer in a family of African American musicians from the turn of the twentieth century; the Tidwells had lived in the local community, known as the TR, but left under mysterious circumstances.
Noonan becomes...
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