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Genre/Form: | Horror fiction Fiction Paranormal fiction Suspense fiction Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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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. |
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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 melancholic beauty * Guardian, Book of the Week * All the virtues of his best work * Margaret Atwood, New York Times * A gripping, powerful novel, all the more so for being patently heartfelt * Financial Times * Obviously a masterpiece, probably the best supernatural novel in a hundred years. * Peter Straub on <i>The Shining</i> * The most remarkable storyteller in modern American literature. * Mark Lawson, <i>Guardian</i> * Obviously a masterpiece, probably the best supernatural novel in a hundred years. * Peter Straub on <i>The Shining</i> * The most remarkable storyteller in modern American literature. * Mark Lawson, <i>Guardian</i> * Read more...