Horror

Doctor Sleep

by Stephen KingBook 2 of 2 in The Shining
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Description

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 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 Dan's own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra's soul and survival.

What it’s like

ViolenceVisceral/Realistic
HorrorTerrifying

Awards

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Details

First published
September 24, 2013
Pages
560
Reading time
About 11 hours
Format
Novel
Audience
Adult
Publisher
Gallery Books
Language
English
ISBN
9781476779416
Series
The Shining, Book 2

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