02216nam a2200229   45000010005000000200029000051000026000342450034000602600223000943000021003175000035003385201212003736500040015856500042016256550029016676550027016966550033017236550031017566550034017879990015018219520150018366327  a9781444783247 (pbk.) :c1 aKing, Stephen,d1947-10aDoctor Sleep /cStephen King.  aLondon :bHodder Paperback :b[distributor] Bookpoint :b[distributor] Alliance Distribution Services Pty Ltd :b[distributor] Alliance Distribution Services Pty Ltd :b[distributor] Jonathan Ball Publishers SA,c2014.  a499 p. ;c20 cm.  aPaperback. A-format paperback.  aThe 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.  aGood and evil -- Fiction.vxyz2  aPsychic ability -- Fiction.vxyz2  aHorror fictionvxyz2  aHorror talesvxyz2  aParanormal fictionvxyz2  aSuspense fictionvxyz2  aThrillers (Fiction)vxyz2  c5337d5337  00102ddc40708FICaRTCLIBbRTCLIBcFICd2018-11-27h i10020l7m2oFIC 813.54 KINp30010184r2023-11-13 00:00:00s2023-08-15w2018-11-27yFIC