King, Stephen, 1947-

Joyland / by Stephen King. - London : Hard Case Crime/Titan Books, 2013. - 283 p. ; 21 cm. - Hard Case crime novel .

Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.

ISBN: 9781781162644 (tr. pbk.) 1781162646

Subjects--Topical Terms:
City and town life--North Carolina--Fiction.
Amusement parks--Fiction.
Nineteen seventies--Fiction.
Carnivals--Fiction.
College students--Fiction.
Cold cases (Criminal investigation)--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
Life change events--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
North Carolina--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Mystery fiction--2013.
Ghost stories.

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.54