Revival. Stephen King. ISBN:9781444789225

A dark and disturbing novel about addiction, fanaticism and what can await on the other side of life. More than fifty years ago, in a small town in New England, a boy was playing with soldiers in the yard. Suddenly, a shadow fell over him. Jamie Morton looked up and saw the new priest. Charles Jacobs came to town with his beautiful wife to change the local church for the better. Men and boys are in love with Mrs. Jacobs, and women and girls have similar feelings towards Reverend Jacobs. Among the latter are Jamie's mother and beloved sister, Claire. But a closer connection is established between Jamie and the reverend, based on a kind of obsession. When tragedy strikes the Jacobs family, the charismatic preacher attacks God himself and ridicules religious beliefs, leading to his exile. Jamie is overcome by his own demons. Since the age of thirteen, he has been united in an imaginary marriage with his guitar and now travels around the country with a musical group, leading the nomadic life of a real rocker. At the same time, he tries to escape from the feeling of family loss. In his early thirties, a troubled and desperate heroin addict, Jamie, meets Charles Jacobs again. The meeting promises fatal consequences for both. Their relationship is concluded in an agreement that the devil himself never dreamed of. Jamie learns all the meanings of the term "rebirth". A deep and soul-stirring novel, the chronology of which covers fifty years of the lives of the heroes, and the ending is the most terrifying of all Stephen King has written in the history of his writing career. A masterpiece from King in the best American traditions of Frank Norris, Nathaniel Horton and Edgar Allan Poe.