He picked up the premise again in the ’80s, setting it inside an apartment building under the tantalizing title The Cannibals, but that attempt also fizzled.īy the time King finally licked Under the Dome, The Simpsons Movie had beat him to the idea of a town trapped under unbreakable glass. King started toying with the book - about a small New England town named Chester’s Mill that suddenly becomes trapped beneath an invisible, impenetrable, inexplicable dome - in 1976, and many faint traces of The Stand course throughout. The novel is a monster, but it moves like a short story, devoid of the bloat and wordiness that has plagued the beloved author’s latter-period work.
“I tried to write a book that would keep the pedal consistently to the metal,” Stephen King writes in an afterword to Under the Dome, his massive new novel - his 48th! - an explanation for why you will carry this heavy, bulky book everywhere, eager to gobble up a few more pages whenever you can.
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