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Needful Things
- Author
- Stephen King
- Narrator
- Stephen King
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Publish Date
- 30 August 2012
- Run Time
- 25 hours 11 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Rating
- 5.0 (1 review)
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What to expect
Needful Things, the sign said. The oddest name. A name that caused some gossip and speculation among the good folks of Castle Rock, Maine, while they waited for opening day.
Eleven-year-old Brian Rusk was the first customer and he got just what he wanted, a very rare 1956 Sandy Koufax baseball card. Signed. Cyndi Rose Martin was next. A Lalique vase. A perfect match for her living room decor.
Something for everyone. Something you really had to have. And always at a price you could just about afford. The cash price that is. Because there was another price. There always is when your heart's most secret, true desire is for sale . . .
(P)2008 Penguin Audiobooks
Critics Review
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An incredibly gifted writer, whose writing . . . is so fluid that you often forget that you're reading.
Guardian
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A sophisticated literary craftsman . . . his work anatomises . . . the social fabric of small-town American life.
Observer
User Reviews
Book 5.0
Narration 5.0
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5.0 5.0
A visit to Castle Rock where we meet some characters we've met before. These people have their normal petty squabbles with each other. Envy and jealousy turns to dislike, then hatred and ends in murder for many.
Stephen King never seems to disappoint his constant readers.Hojohns 2023-06-09
Details
- Author
- Stephen King
- Narrator
- Stephen King
- Duration
- 25 hours 11 minutes
- Release Date
- 30 August 2012
- ISBN
- 9781444761856
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Genre
- Thriller / suspense fiction
- Rating
- 5.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
There was a new shop in town. Run by a stranger. Needful Things, the sign said. The oddest name. A name that caused some gossip and speculation among the good folks of Castle Rock, Maine, while they waited for opening day.Eleven-year-old Brian Rusk was the first customer and he got just what he wanted, a very rare 1956 Sandy Koufax baseball card. Signed. Cyndi Rose Martin was next. A Lalique vase. A perfect match for her living room decor. Something for everyone. Something you really had to have. And always at a price you could just about afford. The cash price that is. Because there was another price. There always is when your heart's most secret, true desire is for sale . . .(P)2008 Penguin Audiobooks
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