Sleeping beauties : a novel / Stephen King and Owen King.
By: King, Stephen [author]
Contributor(s): Hobbing, Erich | King, Owen
Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2017Edition: First Scribner hardcover editionDescription: x, 702 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781501163401 (hardcover); 9781501163418 (paperback); 9781501163425 (ebook)Subject(s): Demonology -- Fiction | Survival -- Fiction | Women -- Fiction | Sleep -- FictionGenre/Form: Horror fiction.DDC classification: FIC K588 LOC classification: PS3561.I483 | S56 2017Summary: In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep: they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent. And while they sleep they go to another place, a better place, where harmony prevails and conflict is rare. One woman, the mysterious "Eve Black," is immune to the blessing or curse of the sleeping disease. Is Eve a medical anomaly to be studied? Or is she a demon who must be slain? Abandoned, left to their increasingly primal urges, the men divide into warring factions, some wanting to kill Eve, some to save her. Others exploit the chaos to wreak their own vengeance on new enemies. All turn to violence in a suddenly all-male world. Set in a small Appalachian town whose primary employer is a women's prison, Sleeping Beauties is a wildly provocative, gloriously dramatic father-son collaboration that feels particularly urgent and relevant today.| Item type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes author's note
In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep: they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent. And while they sleep they go to another place, a better place, where harmony prevails and conflict is rare. One woman, the mysterious "Eve Black," is immune to the blessing or curse of the sleeping disease. Is Eve a medical anomaly to be studied? Or is she a demon who must be slain? Abandoned, left to their increasingly primal urges, the men divide into warring factions, some wanting to kill Eve, some to save her. Others exploit the chaos to wreak their own vengeance on new enemies. All turn to violence in a suddenly all-male world. Set in a small Appalachian town whose primary employer is a women's prison, Sleeping Beauties is a wildly provocative, gloriously dramatic father-son collaboration that feels particularly urgent and relevant today.
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