An Ode to Childhood : Stephen King's IT
"So drive away quick,drive away while the last of the light slips away,drive away from Derry,from memory...but not from desire. That stays,the bright cameo of all we were and all we believed as children, all that shone in our eyes even when we were lost and the wind blew in the night.Drive away and try to keep smiling.Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward all the life there is with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true.Be brave,stand. All the rest is darkness." IT , Stephen King . Stephen King's IT is so much more than about a shape shifting clown with an appetite for the tender flesh of children.This, is a story of childhood friendships - with all its nuanced, innocent passions. The novel follows a group of teenagers over a summer of 1958, the summer when the town of Derry had reported suspicious disappearances...