| rdfs:comment | - After twenty-five years of marriage, Lisey's writer husband Scott Landon dies of a mystery disease. Scott used to go to a place called Boo'ya Moon, a place that both terrified and healed him. Now it's Lisey's turn to visit, to uncover her husband's past and face her own demons. The novel was partially inspired by King's own brush with mortality after being hit by a car in 1999 and what his wife's life may have been like had he died.
- Lisey's Story is the story of Lisey (pronounced LEE-see) Landon, who is the widow of a famous and wildly successful novelist, Scott Landon. The book tells two stories--Lisey's story in the present, and the story of her dead husband's life, as remembered by Lisey during the course of the novel.
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| abstract | - Lisey's Story is the story of Lisey (pronounced LEE-see) Landon, who is the widow of a famous and wildly successful novelist, Scott Landon. The book tells two stories--Lisey's story in the present, and the story of her dead husband's life, as remembered by Lisey during the course of the novel. It has been two years since her husband's death, and Lisey is in the process of cleaning out her dead husband's writing area. A series of events occurs that causes Lisey to begin facing certain realities about her husband that she had repressed and forgotten. As Lisey is stalked, terrorized, and then mutilated by an insane fan of her husband's, Lisey begins recalling her husband's past--how he came from a family with a history of horrible mental illness that manifested as either an uncontrollable homicidal mania or as a deep catatonia, how he had a special gift, an ability to transport himself to another world, called by Scott Landon "Boo'ya Moon," how Scott Landon's brother was murdered by his father when his brother manifested an incurable insanity, and finally how Scott Landon murdered his father to save his father from the madness that had finally taken him over. As the novel progresses we see the complexity of Lisey's marriage to Scott, and their deep and abiding love for each other. The novel takes place over a very short period of time--a matter of days--but the real story is told in Lisey's remembrances of her husband, her ability to harness his special power to save herself (and her sister), and finally to find the gift that her dead husband had left for her in Boo'ya Moon--a story just for Lisey. Lisey's story.
- After twenty-five years of marriage, Lisey's writer husband Scott Landon dies of a mystery disease. Scott used to go to a place called Boo'ya Moon, a place that both terrified and healed him. Now it's Lisey's turn to visit, to uncover her husband's past and face her own demons. The novel was partially inspired by King's own brush with mortality after being hit by a car in 1999 and what his wife's life may have been like had he died.
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