DOCTOR SLEEP: A Novel (Sequel to THE SHINING)

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Scribner, 2013. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 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. 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. Thirty-five years later, Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of THE SHINGING in DOCTOR SLEE, which is the basis for a new movie coming out November 2019, directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Rebecca Ferguson, Ewan McGregor, and Jacob Tremblay. Fine, unread, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. [Not remainder-marked or price-clipped]