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Scribner has revealed
the hardcover edition artwork for Doctor Sleep. View it here.
Official Release Date:
September 24th 2013
Stephen King explained
the sequel to his third novel The
Shining as "a return to
balls-to-the-wall, keep-the-lights-on horror."
After thirty-six (that's
36) years, Stephen King decides to revisit the world of the 'talented' kid
Danny Torrance.
In an EW interview, the
writer opens up on what inspired him to write the sequel to one of his most
loved stories;
"Probably
five years ago, I saw this piece on one of those morning news shows about a pet
cat at a hospice, and according to this story the cat knew before anybody else
when somebody was going to die. The cat would go into the room, curl up on the
bed, and the people never seemed to mind. Then those people died. I thought to
myself: ‘I want to write a story about that.’ And then I made the connection with
Danny Torrance as an adult, working in a hospice. I thought: ‘That’s it. I’m
gonna write this book.’"
Dan who is now a
middle-aged man turns Doctor Sleep with the aid of a cat that can foresee the
future. In the book, Dan who has been a drifter much of his young life decides
to settle down in a New Hampshire town where he uses his shining to provide
comfort to the dying. He meets a 12-year-old girl, Abra Stone whose shining is
the brightest of all. Dan has a fight on his hands when a tribe of almost immortal
travelers called The True Knot hit town.
King had this to say
about this tribe;
"they don't like
dogs and dogs don't like them … You might say dogs see through them – to the
sharp and watchful eyes behind the cut-rate sunglasses, to the strong and long
muscled hunters' legs beneath the polyester slacks from Wal-Mart, to the sharp
teeth beneath the dentures waiting to come out. They don't like dogs, but they
like sick children. Yes, they like sick children very much." - For more see The
Guardian
These tribe of crazy
quasi-immortals feed off the 'steam' of children who possess the gift of the shining produced when these kids are slowly
tortured to death. Dan must win an epic war between good and evil if he must
save the life of 12-year-old Abra Stone.
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