Almost 2 years ago, author
Stephen King asked his fans what they wanted to see first, another Dark Tower novel or his long-planned
sequel to The Shining. We saw the DT novel The Wind Through the Keyhole released at the end of April. Now
coming January 15, 2013 is Doctor Sleep,
his sequel to his 1977 bestseller.
Now his official site announces
its plot:
Stephen King returns to the
characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting
novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The
Shining) 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 tween 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 hyper-devoted readers of The Shining and
wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon.
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