A Face in the Crowd

De: Stephen King, Stewart O'Nan

Narrado por: Craig Wasson

The writing team that delivered the bestselling Faithful, about the 2004 Red Sox championship season, takes listeners to the ballpark again, and to a world beyond.

Dean Evers, an elderly widower, sits in front of the television with nothing better to do than waste his leftover evenings watching baseball. It’s Rays/Mariners, and David Price is breezing through the line-up. Suddenly, in a seat a few rows up beyond the batter, Evers sees the face of someone from decades past, someone who shouldn’t be at the ballgame, shouldn’t be on the planet. And so begins a parade of people from Evers’s past, all of them occupying that seat behind home plate. Until one day Dean Evers sees someone even eerier….

©2012 Stephen King and Stewart Nan (P)2012 Simon & Schuster Audio

short but good

"But, as with so much of his daily existence, there was no one to share it with."
A Face in the Crowd by Stephen King & Stewart O'Nan

"Late that night, around three, Evers could easily see why of all the possible punishments prisoners feared solitary confinement the most. At some point a beating had to stop, but a thought could go on and on, feeding and then feeding on insomnia."
A Face in the Crowd by Stephen King & Stewart O'Nan

Eyes do play tricks

What would you do it you were watching tv, and starting seeing people that you know shouldn't be on the TV? You knew that these people had passed away many years ago and here they are on the tv live and kicking in front of your eyes. Well this is what was happening to Dean, he started seeing people at a baseball game and these people had things that they wanted to say to him. This book is very interesting to me, it had a meaning to it, it made Dean realize that he may not have treated people the right way throughout his past and he hurt a few of them.

Good story

I have to be honest, I'm not a big baseball fan but I do love Mr King and his writings
so it was a nice story. the narrator was great.

Kept me reading

This is not one of Stephen Kings best but it was interesting enough to keep me reading.

A Life Revealed ~ Between the Pitches

A clever tale, wonderfully told, ably narrated, uncharacteristically brief (at least for Steven King).

This is a great one-hour (or so) listen ~ a morality play of sorts ~ with BASEBALL.

It's ok<br />

very predictable, good narration. It was a nice read, could have been better. Ok read.

Quick one

Stephen King toying with the afterlife. Good story, good narration - same guy who did 11/22/63. Check it out

Classic Stephen King

This was a very classic style Stephen King story. Starts off with a man that seems like just any other man and delves into his history to uncover a multi layered character with secrets in his past he doesn’t want to confront. Top it all off with a twist at the end. Narrator was fantastic giving emotion and character to the book.

Seventh Inning Stretch of Horror

I ran across Stephen King and Stewart O'Nan's "A Face in the Crowd" (2012) while I was looking for King's more recent release "Joyland" (2013).

King and O'Nan are true baseball fans (they collaborated on 2004's "Faithful", the story of the Red Sox 2004 season) and catch the nuances of baseball fandom perfectly. Not baseball itself, but the diehard park going fan who wears the annoying foam finger and drinks watery beer at the park - and the diehard tv watching fan that times dinner preparation to the start of a game, and drinks a six pack in front of the television.

What if one if those at-home viewers was a not-so-nice old retired man living in Florida, who watches a game on tv and sees a loathed person far from his past sitting behind home plate, looking like he hasn't aged in the 60+ years since the old man last saw him? What if the next game, the old man sees a hated business rival buried years ago - and the rival is wearing the same suit he was buried in?

I suppose there is an argument to made that "A Face in the Crowd" is a morality tale, but I'd hate to reduce it to the level of a lesson: "A Face in the Crowd" is, to me, the story of a well-deserved haunting.

The plot was a little too predictable, which is why my rating is a 3. The narration was serviceable and not too memorable.

At the time I wrote this review, the story was only available as an e-book or on Audible. I am glad I found it and listened.

Good, but not great

Unfortunately I have come to expect a lot from Steve. And make no mistake, this is a good story, just not a great one.