![]() ![]() Ultimately though, what makes King special is that he's an unusually imaginative horror writer who's as interested in characterisation as he is in fright. ![]() The first 50 pages of Joyland could easily be, say, (the not unappealing prospect of) John Irving writing at two-thirds power. King is also good at giving a sense of the way a gallant, romantic, innocent young man filters everything through the prism of love, asking the question: "Would my girlfriend like this?" of each of his experiences. "It only when you get to be 25 or so that you begin to suspect you've been looking at the map upside down and not until you're 40 are you entirely sure." Is King talking, just very slightly, about himself here? He's never made any secret of his literary good taste and there are some fantastic paragraphs early on: "When you're 21, life is a road map," he tells us. In what feels like a few too many jumps into the present, Devin tells us he has a slightly dull writing job, and he never got to be the acclaimed, medium-selling, New Yorker magazine-feted novelist he wanted to be. ![]()
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