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Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how much of our memory, of our bodies, of the world as we know it—how much of what we love can we lose before we are lost? And then what happens? Winner of the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize, co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, shortlisted for the 2025 Pacific Northwest Book Award. This third perspective on myself is disconcerting. The heroine of the spare and haunting It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over is voraciously alive in the afterlife.

La ville minière de River Meadows est l'une des seules au monde à produire du minerai fantôme, une nouvelle source d'énergie valant vingt-huit fois son poids en or. Mais l'extraction de la matière est aussi liée à des glissements dans le temps et l'espace qui rendent le secteur inhabitable. Après l'évacuation de la ville, toute la région est bouclée.

In this #1 national bestseller, "master storyteller" (Houston Chronicle) Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman, tells the tale of the contestants of a grueling walking competition where there can only be one winner--the one that survives. In the near future, when America has become a police state, one hundred boys are selected to enter an annual contest where the winner will be awarded whatever he wants for the rest of his life. Among them is sixteen-year-old Ray Garraty, and he knows the rules--keep a steady walking pace of four miles per hour without stopping.

National Bestseller. A New York Times Notable Book. Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Harper's Bazaar, Town & Country, Kirkus Reviews, Esquire, Electric Literature, Scientific American, and more. "One of the most pleasurable, inventive reads of the year... fiendishly, deliciously fun." - San Francisco Chronicle.