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.
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