Doctor Sleep (Book, 2013) [Texas Group Catalog]
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Doctor Sleep

Doctor Sleep

Author: King Stephen
Publisher: New York,New York : Simon and Schuster, 2013.
Edition/Format:   Print book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
On highways across America, a tribe of people called the True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmlessmostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky twelve-year-old Abra Stone learns, the True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the steam that children with the shining produce when they are slowly tortured to death.Haunted by the inhabitants of the  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Paranormal fiction
Suspense fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: King Stephen
ISBN: 9781451698862 1451698860
OCLC Number: 1026474730
Description: 640 pages : 19 cm
Responsibility: Stephen King.

Abstract:

On highways across America, a tribe of people called the True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmlessmostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky twelve-year-old Abra Stone learns, the True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the steam that children with the shining produce when they are slowly tortured to death.Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel, where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his fathers legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant shining power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes Doctor Sleep.Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dans own demons and summons him to a battle for Abras soul and survival. This is an epic war between good and evil, glorious story that will thrill the millions of devoted readers of The Shining and satisfy anyone new to this icon in the Stephen King canon.
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