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Doctor Sleep, a novel, Stephen King

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Doctor Sleep

793575424

Stephen King

a novel

The now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) 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

Prefatory Matters -- Lockbox -- Rattlesnake -- Mama -- Part One -- Abra -- Welcome to Teenytown -- Bad Numbers -- Spoons -- Paging Doctor Sleep -- The True Knot -- Weird Radio -- Part Two -- Empty Devils -- Have You Seen Me? -- Abra's Theory of Relativity -- The Voices of our Dead Friends -- Glass Ornaments -- Thome 25 -- They Call It Steam -- Part Three -- Matters of Life and Death -- Cloud Gap -- Crow -- Swapsies -- That Which Was Forgotten -- Bitchgirl -- Part Four -- Roof O' The World -- Going West -- Ghostie People -- Hub of the Wheel, Roof O' The World -- Until You Sleep -- Anniversary -- Until You Sleep