Years later, young Pete Saubers discovers what turns out to be a saving grace for his family struggling against recession: a trunk full of lovely lolly and a bundle of old diaries. Bellamy confronts Rothstein, leading to a shocking death, and the loss of several diaries written by the latter. Morris Bellamy, a huge fan of reclusive author John Rothstein, is furious that his idol has stopped writing, and that Johnny Gold (Rothstein’s fictional character) has been turned into a slave to advertising. King’s narrative, studded with the stylistic flourishes that makes his work so uniquely his own, switches back and forth between two obsessive young men, and two timelines - 19. King overlays it with an equally compelling theme, of how literature and books can become an alternative universe for some of us, and how we can feel more alive and “real” in that world than in ours. In his latest novel, Finders Keepers, Stephen King returns to one of his most compelling scenarios, one that he laid out for us in his much older Misery: the raging, corrosive love of a fan, that can turn fatal if thwarted.
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