Elevation

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2018 by Stephen King

Illustrations © Mark Edward Geyer

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: King, Stephen, 1947–  author.

Title: Elevation / Stephen King.

Description: New York : Scribner, 2018.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018037806 (print) | LCCN 2018039168 (ebook) | ISBN 9781982102333 (eBook) | ISBN 9781982102319 (hardback) | ISBN 9781982102326 (paperback)

Subjects: | BISAC: FICTION / Suspense. | FICTION / Literary. | GSAFD: Suspense fiction. Classification: LCC PS3561.I483 (ebook) | LCC PS3561.I483 E44 2018 (print) |DDC 813/.54—dc23

ISBN 978-1-9821-0231-9

ISBN 978-1-9821-0233-3 (ebook)