For an eleven-year-old boy, summer vacation stretches ahead like a great banquet of sun-drenched freedom and adventure. But for the kids in little Elm Haven, Illinois, the summer of 1960 - perhaps the last American summer of innocence - is a time of dark nights, rustlings in the closet, stirrings under the bed, pale faces at the window, and the death of onw of their own. Something ancient and evil is stirring within the century-old walls of Old Central School and friends Mike, Duane, Dale, Harlen and Kevin have to stop it before it destroys not only their last summer of childhood... but their lives.
I've read that the book bears many similarities with It (King's masterpiece, in my opinion) but that it's also better written and more dark. I greatly enjoyed every Dan Simmons' novel I've read - Drood is a must-read - and I look forward to this novel. I love coming-of-age tales, and if they have a dark color to them all the better
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