Under the Dome

Author(s): Stephen King

Fiction

The second season of the television adaptation of UNDER THE DOME will receive its UK premiere on Channel 5 on Monday, August 25th (produced by Steven Spielberg). King's bestselling novel centres on a small town suddenly and inexplicably sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible dome.


 


In UNDER THE DOME, King has produced another riveting masterpiece. The end of every chapter hooks you into the next, drawing you inside a psychological drama that is so rich, you don't read it, you live it.


 


It is the story of the small town of Chester's Mill, Maine which is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. No one can get in and no one can get out.


 


The normal rules of society are suddenly changed and when food, electricity and water run short, the community begins to crumble. As a new and more sinister social order develops, Dale Barbara, Iraq veteran, teams up with a handful of intrepid citizens to fight against the corruption that is sweeping through the town and to try to discover the source of the Dome before it is too late . . .


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The second season of the television adaptation of UNDER THE DOME will receive its UK premiere on Channel 5 on Monday, August 25th. In one of Stephen King's most riveting novels, in which every chapter ends on a cliffhanger. a Maine town and its inhabitants are isolated from the world by an invisible, impenetrable dome.

'King's most purely entertaining novel in years ... utterly compelling.' -- John Connolly 'Staggeringly addictive.' -- USA Today 'Tight and energetic from start to finish.' -- New York Times 'The pedal is indeed to the metal.' -- Guardian 'You're sorry when it ends.' -- Daily Express

Stephen King has been described by the Guardian as 'one of the great storytellers of our time', by the Mirror as a 'genius' and by The Sunday Times as 'one of the most fertile storytellers of the modern novel'. In 2003, he was given the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives with his wife, novelist Tabitha King, for most of the year in Maine, USA, which is the setting of UNDER THE DOME.

General Fields

  • : 9780340992586
  • : Hodder & Stoughton
  • : Hodder Paperbacks
  • : 0.56
  • : July 2010
  • : 198mm X 131mm X 58mm
  • : November 2011
  • : books

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  • : Stephen King
  • : Paperback
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