Doctor Sleep: A Novel By Stephen King… Master storyteller Stephen King’s terrifying sequel to The Shining—an instant #1 New York Times bestseller that is “[a] vivid frightscape” (The New York Times). 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
Master storyteller Stephen King’s terrifying sequel to The Shining—an instant #1 New York Times bestseller that is “[a] vivid frightscape” (The New York Times).
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, glorious story that will thrill the millions of devoted readers of
The Shining and satisfy anyone new to this icon in the Stephen King canon.An Amazon Best Book of the Month, September 2013: What ever happened to Danny Torrance? For the 36 years since The Shining was first published, the answer has been left to our imaginations.
Finally we catch up with Dan as his creator envisions him: a flawed middle-aged man with a tragic past — his special gift, “shining,” dulled with age and alcohol. He’s “Doctor Sleep” now, a hospice worker who eases the end of patients’ lives. He also happens to be the only one who can help a little girl with her own special gift.
This is not simply The Shining II. Not only does this story stand on its own, it manages to magnify the supernatural quality that first drew us to young Danny, expanding its mystery and its intensity in a way that might even reach beyond this book into the rest of the King-iverse… and beyond. (Easter egg alert: look for the nod to King’s son Joe Hill’s recent book N0S4A2.) –Robin A. Rothman
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King’s return-to-form continues with this above-average sequel to “The Shining” The return-to-form King displayed with 11/22/63 and the novella JOYLAND continues for the most part with King’s long-awaited 36-years-later sequel to 1977’s THE SHINING.
Oh How I Wanted to Love This Book. [THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SOME SPOILERS]
Starts with fire then runs out of spirit-juice Firstly – kudos to Mr King. As one of his early works The Shining has a mythical status of a classic from an era of horror that once was. Penning a sequel decades later is a challenge I don’t envy.