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

Doctor Sleep : a novel

Author: Stephen King
Publisher: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2013.
Series: Shining, bk. 2.
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 harmless - mostly old, lots of polyester, and devoted to their comfortable recreational vehicles. But they live of the 'steam' that children with the 'shining' produce. Following a childhood haunted by the time he spent with his parents at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance has been drifting for decades,  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Horror fiction
Fiction
Paranormal fiction
Suspense fiction
Romans, nouvelles, etc
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Stephen King
ISBN: 9781444761177 144476117X 9781444761160 1444761161
OCLC Number: 858924527
Notes: Sequel to: The shining.
Awards: Winner of This is Horror Novel of the Year 2013 (UK)
Description: 485 pages ; 24 cm
Contents: On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless --
mostly 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 brightestshining ever seen, that reignites Dans own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra's soul and survival.
Series Title: Shining, bk. 2.
Responsibility: Stephen King.

Abstract:

STEPHEN KING returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining.  Read more...
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King's own supplies of creative steam show little sign of being depleted. * The Sunday Times * A powerful sequel to The Shining * Observer * King finds a mode of the supernatural that has a Read more...

 

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