The Ambiguous Magic Box -- Review of Stephen King's "Gwendy's Magic Box"

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Reviewer: Forrest Schultz schultz_forrest@yahoo.com 770-583-3258

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June 6, 2017

The  Ambiguous  Magic  Box

A Review of

Stephen King & Richard Chizmar Gwendy's Button Box (Cemetery Dance Pubs., 2017)

                                                      171 pp   $16.48   ISBN: 978-1-58767-610-9

Reviewer:  Forrest W. Schultz

     Gwendy became aware of the ambiguous nature of her magic box when she began to realize the harmful effects which its apparent blessings were having upon her life, after which she ceased pressing the magic buttons which had summoned them.  It appears that in so doing she has passed some kind of test when the mysterious man who had given her the box comes to reclaim it in order to give it to someone else.  An interesting and thought-provoking tale.  Read it and see what you think.  

     Let me conclude my review of this novella by expressing my great thanks to Stephen King for his books and novellas, which have been thought-provoking as well as exciting.      

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