Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.
year: 2013, 2015
call number/section: 1000
subjects: ghost stories, mystery fiction, north carolina, fiction, life change events, murder, investigation, city and town life, north carolina, amusement parks, nineteen seventies, carnivals, college students, north carolina, criminal investigation, fiction
Editions
King, Stephen
Hard Case Crime/Titan Books (2013)
In a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.
Schools: 15
King, Stephen
Hard Case Crime/Titan Books (2015)
Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.
Schools: 1
King, Stephen
In the summer of 1973 at an amusement park in a small North Carolina, town college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.
Schools: 1
King, Stephen
Schools: 0