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The major reviews lauding on Stephen Kig's new novel REVIVAL.

The New York Times, Publisher's Weekly, The Independent, The Guardian, and The Boston Globe have heaped an impressive amount of praise on it, and today Amazon named it to their list of Editors' Pick Top Ten Books of the Year, and chose it as the #1 Book of the Year in Mystery and Suspense.  With its eye firmly on the consumer, Amazon and their choices have considerable weight and impact, and we are told that besides the #1 pick REVIVAL was the only unanimous choice of their board.  Given that King has been outspoken in lamenting some of Amazon's recent business practices, it is pleasing that the editorial board seems unaffected:
An Amazon Best Book of the Month, November 2014: How does Stephen King do it? In book after book, writing long (Under the Dome, 11/22/63) or short (Joyland) he manages, nearly always, to tell a compelling story that is both entertaining and somehow profound, or at least thoughtful. His latest, Revival, is vintage King. It’s the perfect mix of baby boomer nostalgia (think Stand By Me) – this guy remembers the 60s with details you usually can only find in photographs – and good old American horror, the kind that was first elevated by such minor writers as, say, Poe and Hawthorne. The story here centers on a reverend who comes to a New England town, befriends and mentors a young boy, and then goes wild with grief when his family dies in an accident; he gives a blasphemous sermon and is, basically, run out of town. Cut to: a couple decades later, when the boy, now a junkie, meets up by chance with the disgraced clergyman, and they form another disturbing relationship. Reverend Jacobs, it turns out, was always more complicated than the stereotypical man of God – he is fascinated by electricity, by science – and pretty demonic, too. How he and Jamie find and fight each other over their lifetimes is as shocking and inevitable as the explosive and, yes, horrorish, climax of the book. Never mind that King’s prose can sometimes lapse into laughable cliché – “like water through a sieve”? Really? – there is absolutely no better storyteller than Stephen King, who keeps us up at night, with fear and fascination and admiration. –Sara Nelson