Rare ELEVATION
by Stephen King
Narrated by Stephen King
Why Listen to This Audiobook?
King narrating his own quiet, hopeful fable is the most surprising thing he's done in years — and at under four hours, it costs almost nothing to find out.
- Great if you want: warm small-town King without the monsters or dread
- Listening experience: breezy and gentle — finishes in a single sitting
- Narration: King's Maine drawl and wry delivery suit this material perfectly
- Skip if: you came for horror — this is closer to a parable
About This Audiobook
Elevation takes place in the small town of Castle Rock, Maine, where a man named Scott Carey is quietly losing weight without losing mass — the scale reads the same whether he is dressed or not. As his strange condition progresses, Scott becomes entangled with his neighbors, a lesbian couple who have opened a restaurant facing local resistance. What begins as a meditation on prejudice and small-town intolerance opens into something more expansive, a fable about the weight we carry and what it means to put it down.
Stephen King reading his own work is always an event, and his performance of this slim, warmly peculiar novella is no exception. King reads with the affectionate naturalism of someone telling a story to a friend, giving Elevation a gentler tone than his horror work. At under four hours it is an ideal audio listen — compact, humane, and quietly moving.
