Stationary bike
When commercial artist Richard Sifkitz, alarmed by his high cholesterol level, buys a stationary bike and paints a scenic wall mural on the wall opposite it, the bike transports him to places he has no intention of going to.
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Middle-aged men > Fiction. Bicycles > Fiction. |
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- ISBN: 0743555619 :
- Physical Description 2 audio discs (approximately 90 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Publisher New York : Simon & Schuster Audio, [2006]
- Copyright ℗2006
Content descriptions
General Note: | Unabridged. GMD: compact disc. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Ron McLarty. |
System Details Note: | Compact discs. |
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The Stationary Bike
New on audio from Stephen King...an unabridged novellaas artful as anything he has ever written. (Booklist)Climb aboard Stationary Bike -- a streamlined fever dream of a tale, in which an ordinary household object assumes otherworldly powers and a familiar journey takes a terrifying twist.When commercial artist Richard Sifkitz finally gets around to having that physical he'd been putting off for years, and his cholesterol comes back dangerously high, he does what so many thirty-something, junk food-eating couch potatoes have done before him: he buys a stationary bike, and vows to ride it regularly.Unlike many a mid-life exercise convert, however, Richard actually starts to ride his new stationary bike. A lot. Soon he's spending so much time on his bike that he decides to put his artistic talents to use and paint a mural on the wall opposite his stationary bike. But it turns out that Richard's mural is no ordinary picture -- and soon his stationary bike is taking him places he doesn't want to go...and can't stay away from.A riveting riff on artistic frustration, midlife mortality, and hard-won redemption, Stationary Bike is a thrill ride that could come only from the mind of Stephen King.