Release Date:- 2009-12-24
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The āpropulsively intriguing, staggeringly addictiveā (USA TODAY) novel from master storyteller Stephen Kingāa #1 New York Times bestseller.
It is a typical October morning in Chesterās Mill, Maine: glorious weather, a perfectly blue sky, and quiet. Then, all hell breaks loose. Inexplicably, and simultaneously, a plane falls from the sky in flames; a womanās hand is severed; and a farmerās John Deere explores (with him on it). A few moments later, a pulp-truck crashes spectacularly. Somehow, an invisible and impermeable barrierāexactly following the townās perimeterāhas descended upon the town.
Life under the dome quickly becomes a hothouseāwith the best in some people and the worst in others flourishing. There are unambiguous heroes and villains, from a supremely corrupt local politician to a very enterprising newspaper reporter. The situation under the dome deteriorates by the minute: supplies of everything are diminishing quickly, the citizens are panicking, and the police force, under the control of the diabolically devious alderman Jim Rennie, implement their own version of martial law. Meanwhile, Barbie, brave Iraq war vet and short order cook, and a band of intrepid pals engage in a race against time to find the source of the dome and raise it before thereās nobody left alive in Chesterās Mill.
Under the Dome is filled with a marvelous and enormous cast of over 100 characters. Kingās trademark idiomatic language is pure pleasure to read. āNowhere in Mr. Kingās immense body of work have his real and fantasy world collided with such head-on forceā (The New York Times Book Review).