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Revival is a novel by American writer Stephen King, published on November 11, 2014, by Scribner. [1] Background information. The novel was first mentioned by King on June 20, 2013, while doing a video chat with fans as part of promoting the then-upcoming Under the Dome TV series.
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is the 66th novel book published by Stephen King; it is his 53rd novel, and the 46th under his own name.
The book was released on 11 November 2014.
When Charles Jacobs, a new minister comes to town, little Jamie Morton is excited. Almost everyone in the tiny Maine hamlet comes to love Jacobs, his beautiful wife, or both of them.
When Conrad, one of Jamie's older brothers develops a throat injury which refuses to heal, his voice not returning, Jacobs's offers to help with an experimental electrical treatment. Using a small device of his own making, he places it around Conrad's neck. Turning it on, a small humming emanates, and Conrad's voice slowly returns to him. All he asks in return is that the Morton children present thank God for the miracle.
Things change all too suddenly when Mrs. Jacobs and her baby die in a gruesome auto accident. Half-crazed, the reverend denounces God and religion during a sermon, and is banished from the town. Thereafter Charles Jacobs pursues a successive careers as a sideshow huckster, and then faith healer, fueled by his lifelong experiments with electricity. Jamie meanwhile, grows up to be a successful musician travelling across the country, and eventually develops a heroin addiction.
After coincidentally attending and collapsing due to withdrawl in a fairground show of Jacobs's, he is "saved' by him. Jacobs, with Jamie's consent, uses another unorthodox electrical treatment to heal Jamie and cure him of his addiction, like he did with his brother years prior. The experiment is a success.
Afterwards, after performing as his assistant for a while, Jacobs helps Jamie get back on his feet. Calling in a favour with Hugh Yates, a music producer in Nederland, Colorado, Jamie secures a job working in a recording studio. However, since his "cure", Jamie experiences strange side effects, including jabbing himself with sharp objects while in a fugue state, as if trying to inject heroin.
After attending one of Jacobs's healing "Revival" shows with Hugh Yates and both experiencing strange effects as both are previous patients of Jacobs's (Jamie with addiction, Hugh with deafness). This experience leads Jamie to start looking into those that Jacobs has healed. As it turns out, many of them have experienced similar side effects and some have killed themselves and others as a result. Later, Jacobs gets in contact; Jamie's childhood sweetheart, Astrid, has developed terminal cancer. Jacobs agrees to heal her, but only if Jamie will become his personal assistant for one last experiment. Jamie reluctantly agrees, and Astrid is cured.
This rich and disturbing novel spans five decades on its way to the most terrifying conclusion Stephen King has ever written. It’s a masterpiece from King, in the great American tradition of Frank Norris, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allan Poe.
May 17, 2020 · Revival, Stephen King's 55th novel, is the master storyteller at his best, bringing to life a tale that could be called "the modern Frankenstein", soon to be adapted for the screen by Doctor Sleep director Mike Flanagan.
- Keith Deininger
Nov 11, 2014 · The dust jacket of Revival promised a a contemporary Gothic novel in the "great American tradition of Frank Norris, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allan Poe, which would span five decades and contain the most terrifying conclusion Stephen King has ever written.
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Nov 11, 2014 · This rich and disturbing novel spans five decades on its way to the most terrifying conclusion Stephen King has ever written. It’s a masterpiece from King, in the great American tradition of...
Nov 21, 2014 · “Revival,” King’s 55th novel, introduces a fellow solitary genius, the Rev. Charles Jacobs, a Frankenstein-like mad scientist who sets out to decipher the “secret of the universe” and the “path...
