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Short Story Collection - Just After Sunset

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  • BevVincentBevVincent
    I was very sorry to hear about Crichton -- I've read all of his books, even those published under pseudonyms. I didn't even know he was ill.
  • jhanicjhanic
    Here's an auction on eBay offering a pre-sale on a 500-copy limited edition of the UK Just After Sunset. I don't have any other details.



    UK Just After Sunset limited



    It doesn't appear that it's going to be signed by King (note the facsimile letter from King mentioned) or if it is even going to be numbered.



    John
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    Review: Mark Graham in Rocky Mountain News
  • jhanicjhanic
    The special UK Limited edition is available from Hatchard's in the UK. The book is toward the bottom of the page.



    Hatchards Special Editions



    Note that it is NOT signed.



    I've ordered one.



    John
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    Reflecting a market in which publishers are significantly reining in their printings, Stephen King’s Just After Sunset arrives Tuesday, November 11, with a 900,000 copy announced printing, down from the 1.25 million copies projected last summer.
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    More reviews:
  • willowlovewillowlove
    EW talks about their columnist's other writing career.



    From the 11/14/08 issue, page 77:



    From the Staff

    Stephen King Catches the Beat



    A couple of years ago, Stephen King agreed to edit an edition of the annual Best American Short Stories book series.  He hadn't written short fiction in a while, and he specifically wanted to see if reading hundreds of other people's stories would inspire him.  Boy, did it.  He got in the groove ("It was like catching a beat," he says) and now he's ready with Just After Sunset, his first story collection in six years.  "The difference between writing stories and novels is like the difference between a Ramones punk song and one of those Dire Straits records with four songs on it, two on each side," he says.  "It was about finding that compression thing again."  And Sunset is also available in a collector's edition that includes a DVD of N., the 25-episode video series (based on a story in Sunset) that King debuted this summer for small-screen platforms.  "I'm riding the crest of the technological wave," he jokes.  "I don't know if it's a big deal, but it's a fun deal."--Gregory Kirschling
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    Alicia Anstead - Bangor Daily News
  • Lou_SytsmaLou_Sytsma
    Sounds great. Can't wait to pick this up.
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    Carol Memmott, USA Today
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    Karen Sandstrom, Plain Dealer
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    Nick Chordas, THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
  • jhanicjhanic
    Bev, any idea on how many of the Collector's Editions (with the dvd) were published? I had to go to three bookstores before I found one that had them. The others told me they could order them but they were not in stock.



    Thanks,

    John
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    No, I don't know. I know they were Steve's idea, as a marketing curiosity. Amazon seems to have no trouble delivering them, but they may be "moderately scarce," which in the King universe could mean low thousands rather than hundreds of thousands!
  • jhanicjhanic
    Thanks, Bev. I was wondering about how such an item came from one of the larger publishers, too. That answers it!



    John
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    Here's my review: Just After Sunset
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    NPR: Macabre Master Stephen King Returns To Form
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    Ted Anthony
  • jhanicjhanic
    According to Ric, who posted at the Forums at StephenKingCollector.com, he went to Walmart and all they had were second printings already! Amazing!



    John
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    More reviews:
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS

    By The Associated Press – 13 hours ago



    HARDCOVER FICTION



    1. "The Christmas Sweater" by Glenn Beck (Threshold Editions)

    2. "Just After Sunset: Stories" by Stephen King (Scribner)

    3. "Divine Justice" by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)

    4. "The Hour I First Believed" by Wally Lamb (Harper)

    5. "Salvation In Death" by J.D. Robb (Putnam)

    6. "The Gate House" by Nelson DeMille (Grand Central Publishing)

    7. "A Mercy" by Toni Morrison (Knopf)

    8. "The Lucky One" by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)

    9. "Extreme Measures" by Vince Flynn (Atria)

    10. "Swallowing Darkness" by Laurell K. Hamilton (Ballantine)
  • jhanicjhanic
    I can't believe that Glenn Beck beat King!



    John
  • BevVincentBevVincent
  • BevVincentBevVincent
    From the NY Times review above:

    So let’s be clear. King isn’t good because he’s popular. But any critic who puts King’s popularity down to the dreadful taste of the masses (cue Harold Bloom) has failed to do the basic work of a critic, which is to understand and probe and not simply to judge. King gets to readers because he renders everyday life so exactly and because he understands it is always ready to rupture.



    The literary critic Leslie Fiedler, in an interview given a few weeks before he died, recalled telling a group of postmodern fiction writers, “Look, let’s be frank with each other: When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King.” Anyone who claims to be interested in contemporary American literature needs to understand what he’ll be remembered for.

  • willowlovewillowlove
    From EW, 12/19/08, page 67 (the bestseller chart):



    One tale ("Ayana") in King's short-story collection centers on a dying man and was inspired by his father-in-law, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. "Everybody got ready to bury him, [but] he just didn't seem to get sick," King told EW. "He went back to the doctor, who said, 'You don't have cancer, you just have an odd-shaped pancreas.' I started to think about why [some] people live and some people die."







    (Sorry about taking so long about getting this and my other post today out, but the weather here in the Seattle area has been pretty crazy.)
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