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    1922: A Novel
    1922: A Novel
    1922: A Novel
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    1922: A Novel

    Written by Stephen King

    Narrated by Craig Wasson

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    Winner of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award

    The chilling novella featured in Stephen King’s New York Times bestselling collection Full Dark, No Stars, 1922 is about a man who succumbs to the violence within—setting in motion a grisly train of murder and madness.

    Wilfred James owns eighty acres of farmland in Nebraska that have been in his family for generations. His wife, Arlette, owns an adjoining one hundred acres. She wants to sell her land but if she does, Wilfred will be forced to sell as well. James will do anything to hold onto his farm, and he'll get his son to go along.

    Betrayal, murder, madness, rats, 1922 is a breathtaking exploration into the dark side of human nature from the great American storyteller Stephen King.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateOct 13, 2017
    ISBN9781508254508
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    Stephen King

    Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes the short story collection You Like It Darker, Holly, 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, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter 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. 

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    • 4/5
      Just ending, after everything that happened! Will continue to explore more of Stephen King.
    • 4/5
      Loved this! And I now have an irrational fear of rats lol
    • 5/5
      This is one of my favorite Stephen King books. It's short and to the point. There's a little extra gore in it that I could do without. But all in all it's a great listen.
    • 4/5
      Decent book. Very well written. Goes into much detail and nastiness with the murder.
    • 4/5
      Wilf and his wife Arnette have become an unhappy couple over the years, something their fourteen year-old son Henry has to watch. Wilf owns 80 acres of Nebraska farmland that has been passed down to him and he wants to pass it down to his own son, which is what Henry wants too. Arnette owns 100 acres and hates farming and living such an isolated life. When a big pork slaughtering company makes an offer on Arnette's land, she wants to take it and go to the city, even though the company would make the land and water supply a disaster for the other farmers. Wilf and Henry do the only thing they can think of to stop Arnette, but it's the catalyst for for more tragedy.
    • 4/5
      1922By Stephen KingThis is a King book I missed when it was new. I am just now getting to it. Although it is short, especially for King, it has everything! The creep factor, the human greed, and lots of suspense.It's about a family on a farm and the woman wants to move to the city. The son is only 14 and would go with the mom. But dad it greedy. He wants it all to himself. He gets the son to help murder the mom and hide the body. They lie and say she ran away. Well, you know in King's books, all literal hell now breaks loose! Lol!I good short read with ghosts and rats! I was cheering on both!
    • 3/5
      This is one of Stephen King’s shortest books. I must say, I was not a big fan of this book. It may have been caused to watching the Netflix movie before. I found it hard to finish this book even though it was only 100 some odd pages. I made myself finish it so I can reach my goal of reading 10 books this year (currently at 9!!). This book is about a husband that commits a horrible crime towards his wife and involves their son. He does all this in order to get some acreage before she planed to sell it off to a butchery. The wife haunts the husband and ultimately looses everything he had because of his horrible crime. My favorite part of this book is when he brings his cow inside his house… Other than that it was an OK read. I would not read it again.
    • 2/5
      Although I'm a Stephen King fan, I really, really disliked this book. I like to read horror, but this one was too grisly for me. There was a lot of animal abuse and suffering (not to mention human), and that stuff stays in my mind. I hate it. That isn't balanced out by the characters. They are all unlikable, but with no redeeming qualities to make me care about them. I kept reading because I was hoping something good would happen. Two stars instead of one because King writes well, but...yuck, just yuck.
    • 4/5
      I ask you, who knows and writes about the dark side of human nature better than Stephen King? This particular story was originally published in an anthology collection entitled Full Dark no Stars in 2010... and this 128 page novella embellishes on one of the stories in that book. It's a really good story and the characters are...as our British friends say..."spot on". The story itself and the plot are fascinating because of the very strong and powerful subject at the core of it. Many of Stephen King's novels are character driven by the father figure coming across as deficient and devious. 1922 is no exception although I believe this "father figure" may have had a few bolts loose to begin with. Stephen King enthusiasts will more than likely like it.
    • 3/5
      I guess I can't read and enjoy Stephen King much anymore. Too dark and nasty for me. I was very surprised to discover when I had finished it that it had been made into a full length Netflix movie. I don't know that I'd watch it.Wilf and his wife disagree on what to do with the land she has inherited. Wilf wants them to farm it with the land they already own. Arlette wants to sell everything and move to Omaha. 14 year old son Henry is becoming sweet on farm girl Shannon down the road. Wilf gives us a confession of how he recruited his son to help murder Arlette. Nothing good can come of this of course. The story is told very well, but it is very dark at the start and along the way. This is too dark for me to enjoy.
    • 4/5
      1922 is a novella. It is part of Stephen King’s FULL DARK, NO STARS book, but 1922 is also a standalone as an e-book.This novella is Wilfred’s confession. He is a Nebraska farmer who owns 80 acres of land and some cows. He has a wife, Arlette who just inherited 100 acres of adjoining land. They have a 14-year-old son, Henry, who is in love with Shannon, a girl on a neighboring farm.Arlette wants to sell the 100 acres; Wilfred wants to add it to the 80 acres and farm it. Neither will change their mind. That’s where the trouble begins.Wilfred involves Henry in the action he decides to take with disastrous results. And Wilfred blames himself for everything that happens thereafter. That includes even Henry’s actions.Many horrible things happen to Wilfred. The reader can understand these events in two different ways: 1) they might be supernatural or 2) they could be the imagination of a good man (who has a Conniving Man (King’s caps, not mine) in him) with a guilty conscience. I chose to believe the latter. Either way, it’s pretty creepy.King never explains how we can read this confession. You’ll know what I’m talking about when you get to the end.