Format:
Book
Author:
King, Stephen, 1947- author.
Title:
Doctor Sleep : a novel / Stephen King.
Edition:
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Scribner, 2013.
©2013
Description:
531 pages ; 25 cm.
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 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 father’s 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.
Subjects:
Good and evil -- Fiction.
Genre:
Psychic ability -- Fiction.
Paranormal fiction.
Horror fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
LCCN:
2013000431
ISBN:
9781476727653 (hardback)
1476727651 (hardback)
Other Number:
793575424
System Availability:
186
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
2686547
Call Number:
813/.54
Course Reserves:
0
# System items in:
160