Joyland is a short book (by Stephen King standards) about
relationships of love and friendship. There are some supernatural aspects to the
book centered around the "Joyland" amusement park, it is Stephen King
after all, but they exist only to move along the real story of one
transformative summer in the life of college-aged Devin Jones and his broken
heart, a beautiful woman, and a dying child. As much as I love Stephen King's
horror, when he notches it back a bit and tightens up a story I get reminded of why
I have been reading his work since the 1970s, when he first succeeded in scaring
a teenager to death with his tale of vampires in a small Maine town. -
Peter (Downtown)
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