Doctor Sleep is a novel by Stephen King, a sequel to King's novel The Shining (1977), released in September 2013.[1] King first mentioned the idea in November 2009. The author's official website confirmed the project on September 26, 2011.[2] The audiobookedition of King's 2012 novel The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole, released on April 24, 2012, contains the novel's prologue read by the author.[3] The e-book publication of In the Tall Grass, a novella written by King and his son Joe Hill, contains the text of this excerpt.[4] Describing the novel on his official site, King stated that it is "a return to balls-to-the-wall, keep-the-lights-on horror". Doctor Sleep reached the first position on The New York Times Best Seller lists for print and ebook fiction (combined), hardcover fiction, and ebook fiction. Doctor Sleep won the 2013 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel.Stephen King returns to the character and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance and the very special twelve-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals.
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. This is an epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of devoted readers of The Shining and satisfy anyone new to this icon in the King canon.
Doctor Sleep sumary:
I really enjoyed that this book was not simply a horror-thriller, but a story between good and evil. The protagonists, Abra Stone and Dan Torrence fight evil in all forms: mentally through the psychological trauma of The Shining and its esoteric quality, physically by aging with a talent that is unpredictable in nature, and spiritually by the True Knot - a group of supernatural, vampire-like humans that feed on children who shine.
Abra and Dan are the heroes and represent good human nature. Dan is an example of human will and Abra is an example of innocence. They make a clever team when put together despite the evil that is always after them. Dan is older, experienced, and has fought many battles on top of having The Shining talent. Abra is fluorescent with positive energy and ripe with youth, stuck between being a child and a teenager.
The villain and representation of evil is Rose the Hat, leader of the True Knot. She guides her flock of paranormal criminals through the interstate highway like a sickness runs through veins. She is attractive, sexual, and powerful. She has control throughout the book while Dan and Abra are striving to figure things out. This is all builds gradually, then kicks into gear when the duo team up to defeat her.
What make it truly exciting is the True Knot are in trouble. Since they rely on “steam,” a supernatural essence extracted when children who shine are tortured, their food source is limited. It has to be hunted. They are experienced in many ways at doing this, but when their fate begins to intertwine with Dan and Abra's, things get tricky. Abra gives off the biggest heat source of “steam.” It also happens that the True Knot are running low, making her a much needed asset.
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Doctor Sleep by Stephen King full audiobook
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