Doctor Sleep By Stephen King (Paperback, 2014)

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An epic war between good & evil a gory glorious story that will thrill the millions of hyper-devoted readers of The Shining & wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon King says he wanted to know what happened to Danny Torrance the boy at the heart of The Shining after his terrible experience in the Overlook Hotel The instantly riveting DOCTOR SLEEP picks up the story of the now middle-aged Dan working at a hospice in rural New Hampshire & 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 & married to their RVs But as Dan Torrance knows & 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 & violence Finally he settles in a New Hampshire town an AA community that sustains him & 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 & it is her spectacular gift the brightest shining ever seen that reignites Dan's own demons & summons him to a battle for Abra's soul & survival