We also find out, almost immediately, that he’s afflicted with a condition that baffles even his good friend and retired M.D., Doctor Bob Ellis. Elevation is an intimate story with a limited cast of characters, the most important of whom is Scott Carey, a big, tall, slightly overweight, successful web designer in his early forties, who is “amicably” divorced from his wife Nora, who now lives in Arizona.įrom the first pages of the novel, we sense that Scott is a kind and decent person. King decided to focus once again on Castle Rock, Maine, the locus of so many of his novels.
I think that rather than take on the weighty problems of a country, a continent or the whole planet (which cause him so much concern). He read it in a day I made it last a couple. It’s one of my sons who lent me a copy he received as a Christmas gift. After all, in King’s writing universe, 145 pages is a post-it note. Thus, he came up with Elevation, published in 2018, which I consider a novella. Trump’s tweets, and despairing at the state of things at home and abroad, King decided that the world could use some inspiration (and maybe he needed some too). It’s as though, after weeks and months of responding to the disjointed, irrational and mean-spirited ravings of Mr. Stephen Kingįor all of these reasons, his recent book, Elevation, is an inspired choice and, I’m sure, a surprise to his readers. A lot comes to mind when the name Stephen King is mentioned: his astonishing success and appeal as a writer the longevity of his career his imperviousness to the criticisms of anything that smacks of literary elitism his boundless, inexhaustible narrative imagination his stamina his willingness to creep and crawl around inside the nastiest parts of human nature and treat each of his characters with integrity the mind-boggling length of many of his novels (sigh) his profound decency and, more recently, his no holds barred Twitter battle(I don’t subscribe to Twitter but this epic confrontation is reported everywhere online) with Donald Trump.
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