num_pages: 531
description: Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever The Shining in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) and the very special 12-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 and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows and spunky 12-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 a gory glorious story that will thrill the millions of hyper-devoted fans of The Shining and wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon.
language: English
title: Doctor Sleep
publisher: Scribner