Better Than Home, Joe Hill
Better Than Home, Joe Hill
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Better Than Home

Author: Joe Hill

Narrator: David Ledoux

Unabridged: 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 10/16/2007


Synopsis

From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this e-short story—from Joe Hill’s award-winning collection 20th Century Ghosts.Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . .Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. It isn't easy to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town. . . .Francis is unhappy. Francis was human once, but that was then. Now he's an eight-foot-tall locust and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. . . .John Finney is locked in a basement that's stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children. In the cellar with him is an antique telephone, long since disconnected, but which rings at night with calls from the dead. . . .

About Joe Hill

Born in 1972 to authors Tabitha (nee Spruce) and Stephen King, Joseph Hillstrom King grew up in the state of Maine along with his younger brother, (also a writer) Owen King.

At age 9, Joe appeared in the 1982 film Creepshow, which was written by his famous father. In 1997 he chose to use an abbreviated form of his given name (a reference to executed labor leader Joe Hill, for whom he was named), out of a desire to succeed based solely on his own merits rather than as the son of Stephen King, one of the world's best-selling and most-recognized living novelists. Hill's debut, Heart-Shaped Box, won the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel. His second, Horns, was made into a film Freakfest starring Daniel Radcliffe. His other novels include NOS4A2, and his #1 New York Times Best-Seller, The Fireman.

Hill currently lives in New Hampshire with a corgi named McMurtry after a certain beloved writer of cowboy tales.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Andrew on January 21, 2015

Well that was weird? It was quite a good story. Homer, the main character obviously has some form of mental illness, maybe autism? The story was interesting in the way that Homer told it to you. You could see things from his perspective and see through his eyes how he thinks people see him. It was in......more

Goodreads review by Sungil on January 05, 2019

Re-read. A beautiful, heartwrecking story about Homer, a boy with special needs and the sad fact, that the only person in his world, that understands him (in some degree), is his father. This story has so many layers, and if you know about these childrens fight to fit in, be accepted & understood and......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan on September 28, 2014

Better Than Home is about child named Homer who suffers from autism. His father is what I believe to be a somewhat famous Baseball player. Homer and his old man share a deep caring relationship with each other which serves as the backbone for most of this novella. While is relationship with his moth......more

Goodreads review by Beth on September 15, 2016

After reading several reviews here, I was happy to see it wasn't just me. I admit, I didn't get it. It's not badly written, it just didn't go anywhere. We had the bitchy aunt who blew off finding a dead guy in a covered bridge and everybody's solution seemed to be to send the poor kid to a "special......more

Goodreads review by Benjamin on May 22, 2017

A nice, poignant tale about a boy and his father.......more