The press material for Owen King’s debut novel, Double Feature, doesn’t make the connection to his family, but that won’t keep anyone from noticing he’s Stephen King’s youngest son. The first of the family’s many releases this year—Joe Hill’s next novel comes out April 30, Stephen King has two books scheduled for 2013—Double Feature is a sprawling family drama about artistic failure, forgiveness, and learning to be satisfied. It has grand aspirations for material not typically treated with much gravitas, but ultimately sets too much in motion without enough resolution.
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