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"Gwendy’s Final Task"
by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar
When Gwendy Peterson was twelve, a mysterious stranger named Richard Farris gave her a mysterious box for safekeeping. It offered treats and vintage coins, but it was dangerous. Pushing any of its seven colored buttons promised death and destruction.
Years later, the button box entered Gwendy’s life again. A successful novelist and a rising political star, she was once again forced to deal with the temptation that box represented.
Now, evil forces seek to possess the button box and it is up to Senator Gwendy Peterson to keep it from them. At all costs. But where can you hide something from such powerful entities?
In Gwendy’s Final Task, “horror giants” (Publishers Weekly) Stephen King and Richard Chizmar take us on a journey from Castle Rock to another famous cursed Maine city to the MF-1 space station, where Gwendy must execute a secret mission to save the world. And, maybe, all worlds.
Signed & Slipcased Numbered Limited Edition
Personally signed by Richard Chizmar, Linwood Barclay, and Vincent Sammy
- SST Publications 2022
- Signed Limited Slipcased Hardcover Edition
- Limited to only 600 signed and hand-numbered copies
- First Edition, First Printing (Full Number Line 10...1)
- Foreword by Linwood Barclay
- Specially designed full-colour illustrated signature page personally signed by Richard Chizmar, Linwood Barclay, and Vincent Sammy. (Please note that Stephen King will NOT be signing.)
- Full-colour artwork frontispiece printed on silk art stock & tipped into the front of the book
- Deluxe oversized trim size (to match our Gwendy’s Magic Feather limited edition)
- Printed on a heavy specialty acid-free paper stock reserved for high-end limited editions
- Bound in a deluxe material (to match our other Gwendy’s special limited editions) with coloured head and tail bands
- Hot foil stamping on the front boards and spine
- Offset printed and bound with full-colour endpapers
- Sewn binding for increased durability
- Gorgeous wraparound dust jacket art by Vincent Sammy
- Featuring seven full-colour interior paintings printed on silk art stock and tipped into the book
- Sewn-in ribbon page marker
- Housed in a custom-made slipcase bound in the same deluxe material as the book and featuring hot foil stamping on the front boards and spine
Reviews
Reviews and Praise for the Gwendy trilogy:
"Man, I love this story! The whole thing just races and feels so right-sized and so scarily and sadly relevant. Loved the characters... and the sense of one little girl's connection to the whole world through this weird device. It all just sang."
—JJ Abrams
—JJ Abrams
"This absorbing novella by horror giants King (End of Watch) and Chizmar (A Long December) revisits one of King's most popular locales. It's 1974 when 12-year-old Gwendy Peterson is offered a magic box by a man named Richard Farris, whom she meets at the top of one of the cliffside Suicide Stairs in Castle Rock, Maine. Farris wears a "small neat black hat" and seems to know just who Gwendy is and what she wants. Eight buttons grace the mahogany box he offers to Gwendy, and a lever dispenses silver dollars and intricate chocolates that Farris claims will help Gwendy lose weight and escape being called "Goodyear" by her classmates. Lose weight she does, but that's not all. Wonderful things keep happening in Gwendy's life, and she's happier than she's ever been. But when she decides to press one of the buttons, the consequences are horrendous. The novella follows Gwendy through high school and beyond, capturing the golden-hued joy of childhood and the wonder of friendship and first love, all under the shadow of temptation. This bite-size gem of a story packs quite a punch, and the only complaint readers will likely have is that it isn't longer."
—Publishers Weekly
—Publishers Weekly
" Castle Rock, Maine, is known for the strange things that always seem to happen there. It has been a while since King let his imagination wander back to this beloved location, but with the help of award-winning author Chizmar, Castle Rock reveals one of its best secrets yet. Readers meet Gwendy in the summer of 1974, as she climbs the 305 Suicide Steps to the top of Castle View to find a man in a dark suit and hat waiting for her on a bench. He has something to give her, something beautiful but sinister: the button box. It dispenses valuable coins and amazing chocolate treats, but it can also be used to cause worldwide devastation—and Gwendy is charged with keeping the box safe for the foreseeable future. This coming-of-age novella is told in a tone that is both sweet and ominous. As she grows from a plump 12-year-old to a college graduate, Gwendy's time as the steward of the box is filled with its share of utter happiness and crushing sorrow. Where the story shines is in the universal questions it asks: how much of any of our lives is our own doing versus a result of intervention from an unseen force? And how much power do any of us have to save the world—or destroy it? Readers will eagerly devour this thought-provoking, satisfying tale, even as it leaves them unsettled."
—Booklist (starred review)
—Booklist (starred review)
Slipcased Limited Edition of only 600 S/N Copies
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