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Stephen King and the Corrective Role of Fiction

Stephen King and the Corrective Role of Fiction

What if reality cannot be corrected, but its story can? From 11.22.63 and Pet Sematary to Misery and Billy Summers, Stephen King repeatedly explores our desire to alter the past, escape fate and regain control. Perhaps fiction offers something reality cannot: the possibility of rewriting the story when we cannot rewrite what happened.

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