Doctor Sleep : a novel / Stephen King.
The now middle-aged Dan Torrance must save a very special twelve-year-old girl 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. -- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781476727653
- ISBN: 1476727651
- ISBN: 9781451698855
- ISBN: 1451698852
- ISBN: 9781451698862
- ISBN: 1451698860
- Physical Description: 531 pages ; 25 cm.
- Edition: First Scribner edition
- Publisher: New York, NY : Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., [2013]
- Copyright: ©2013
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- Publisher, dates, and paging may vary.
- Target Audience Note:
- HL760L Lexile
- Study Program Information Note:
- Accelerated Reader AR UG 5 24 161939.
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- Good and evil > Fiction.
- Genre:
- Psychic ability.
Paranormal fiction.
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Summary:
The now middle-aged Dan Torrance must save a very special twelve-year-old girl 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. --
