"Some of King’s most graceful writing…ruminative, amused, digressive, marvelously unaffected, and finally, devastatingly sad."- Entertainment Weekly

"Tight and engrossing…it’s the coming-of-age storytelling and a young man’s roller-coaster of a summer that make JOYLAND a prize worth all your tokens and skeeball tickets."- USA Today

"Moving, immensely appealing…the real strength of JOYLAND stems from King’s ability to connect with his characters directly and viscerally. It’s that emotional bond that marks the difference between books that merely entertain and books that matter in a fundamental way. With deceptive ease and astonishing regularity, King has been writing stories that matter for nearly 40 years. In JOYLAND, he has done it once again."- Washington Post

"It’s a true pulp novel…absorbing, emotionally intense."- The A.V. Club

"A must for King fans."- Library Journal

College student Devin Jones took the summer job at Joyland hoping to forget the girl who broke his heart. But he wound up facing something far more terrible: the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and dark truths about life—and what comes after—that would change his world forever.A riveting story about love and loss, about growing up and growing old—and about those who don’t get to do either because death comes for them before their time—JOYLAND is Stephen King at the peak of his storytelling powers. With all the emotional impact of King masterpieces such as The Green Mile and The Shawshank Redemption, JOYLAND is at once a mystery, a horror story, and a bittersweet coming-of-age novel, one that will leave even the most hard-boiled reader profoundly moved.