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Lisey's Story

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Lisey's Story is a novel by Stephen King. It was released on October 24, 2006.

Lisey's Story.

Plot summary

Lisey Landon lost her husband Scott two years ago, after a twenty five year marriage of the most profound and sometimes frightening intimacy. Lisey knew there was a place Scott went -- a place that both terrified and healed him, could eat him alive or give him the ideas he needed in order to live. Now it's Lisey's turn to face Scott's demons, Lisey's turn to go to Boo'ya Moon. What begins as a widow's effort to sort through the papers of her celebrated husband becomes a nearly fatal journey into the darkness he inhabited.

Location

Lisey's Story, like many of King's novels, takes place in Maine--in this case Castle Rock, one of King's fictional towns.

Connections

Connections to King's other works.

Derry

  • Worried that she needs to take Scott to the hospital after he cuts his hand, Lisey instantly thinks of Derry Home, the hospital in Derry, Maine. Derry is a major landmark in King's work, and is in close proximity to Castle Rock, near where Lisey's Story takes place.

Dreamcatcher

  • While driving to her sister Amanda's house, Lisey crosses Deep Cut Road, a major landmark in Dreamcatcher.

Bag of Bones

  • Lisey's sister, Darla, waves Lisey's offer of company on the drive back to see Amanda, citing that she has a Michael Noonan novel on audio cassette that she can listen to. Mike Noonan was the lead character of Bag of Bones.

Dark Tower

  • Lisey compares her resurfacing memories to events happening "on some level of time's great tower".

Kingdom Hospital

  • When discussing treatment at a nearby hospital, the option of "Kingdom" is offered.

Trivia

  • King's use of the term 'gomer' is a reference to Samuel Shem's The House of God. According to a character in Lisey's Story, a gomer is a catatonic person; in The House of God, a gomer is a very ill hospital patient who frustrates the staff by being "too old to die." "gomer" stands for : Get Out of My Emergency Room.
  • A short excerpt from the first chapter, in King's own handwriting, was included in his previous novel, Cell. The second chapter, titled "Lisey and the Madman," was published in McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories. The version in McSweeney's is considerably different from the one in the final version. Among the differences is a Dark Tower reference; Scott Landon states "Discordia rises", a reference to the Crimson King's brand of evil. In the finished novel, however, the reference is absent.
  • In the Dark Tower IV Wizard and Glass Walter Says to Eldred Jonas Bool! The End
  • King often references musicians and bands in his writing; in Lisey's Story, the pool is widened after his discovery of younger bands (which he has written about in his Entertainment Weekly article, The Pop of King). Here, Bright Eyes and My Chemical Romance are referenced--with Bright Eyes being alluded to as the more intellectual of the two.
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