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A Book A Week: The Colorado Kid by Stephen King
Monday, September 5, 2011 at 11:05AM The Colorado Kid by Stephen King, Dorchester, 2005, part of the Hard Case Crime series (library copy)
Two old-coot journalists educate their young intern in the ways of the enigmatic story over coke and muffins one afternoon in the newsroom of a sleepy Maine island-village.
The story the old guys tell is mysterious, and all potential explanations are improbable, but there is nothing explicitly uncanny in the book, aside from the barest suggestion of telepathy. That’s more likely attributed to the familiarity of an old friendship, though. Their job, according to the journalists, is to put together a story that makes sense, from the facts at hand. The narration proves most difficult, in the strange case of the Colorado Kid.
It’s a slightly gritty but sleepy story-within-a-story. Putting the tellers into the book this way brings to mind Blockade Billy. In that novella, King is himself a character, interviewing an old-timer, who tells him a fantastic baseball tale. These would both be interesting examples to think about the nature of storytelling and narration.
Reading The Colorado Kid makes me want to watch the SyFy series Haven, which is supposedly inspired by this short book. At first glance though, the series doesn’t appear to have a whole lot to do with the novella besides setting. Correct me if I’m wrong.
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Reader Comments (2)
The series has next to nothing to do with the story - really the story is almost like a kicking off point. That being said, Ileana and I were just talking this evening about how much we are enjoying the show.
I've seen just a few random episodes, but really like the characters. I'll have to try it from the beginning.