The Book of Lost Things

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 074329890X ISBN13: 9780743298902 Release Date: October 2007 Publisher: Atria Books Length: 480 Pages Weight: 1.10 lbs. Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.4" x 8.4" New York Times bestselling author John Connolly's unique imagination takes readers through the end of innocence into adulthood and beyond in this dark and triumphantly creative novel of grief and loss, loyalty and love, and the redemptive power of stories. High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness. Angry and alone, he takes refuge in his imagination and soon finds that reality and fantasy have begun to meld. While his family falls apart around him, David is violently propelled into a world that is a strange reflection of his own--populated by heroes and monsters and ruled by a faded king who keeps his secrets in a mysterious book, T