An edition of Doctor Sleep (2013)

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An edition of Doctor Sleep (2013)

Docteur Sleep

roman

  • 4.22 ·
  • 32 Ratings
  • 309 Want to read
  • 12 Currently reading
  • 60 Have read

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.

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Stephen King
Language
French
Pages
586

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Cover of: Doktor Sen
Doktor Sen
Nov 21, 2019, Prószyński Media
hardcover in Polish
Cover of: Doctor Sleep
Doctor Sleep
2019, Hodder & Stoughton
in English
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Doctor Sleep
2019, Gallery Books
in English
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Doctor Sleep
2019, Pocket Books
in English
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Doctor Sleep
Jun 10, 2014, Gallery Books
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Doctor Sleep
2014, W F Howes Ltd
in English
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Doctor Sleep
2014, Hodder & Stoughton
in English
Cover of: Doctor Sueño
Doctor Sueño
2013, Plaza Janés, Random House Mondadori
in Spanish
Cover of: Doctor Sleep
Doctor Sleep
2013-09, Scribner
in English
Cover of: Doctor Sueño
Doctor Sueño
2013, Vintage Español, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Trade Paperback in English
Cover of: Docteur Sleep
Docteur Sleep: roman
2013, Stephen King
in French

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Edition Notes

Translation of: Doctor sleep.

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Pagination
586 pages
Number of pages
586

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OL26922523M
ISBN 10
2226252002
ISBN 13
9782226252005
OCLC/WorldCat
870267667

Work Description

Perseguitato dalle visioni provocate dallo shining, la luccicanza, il dono maledetto con il quale è nato, e dai fantasmi dei vecchi ospiti dell'Overlook Hotel dove ha trascorso un terribile inverno da bambino, Dan ha continuato a vagabondare per decenni. Una disperata vita on the road per liberarsi da un'eredità paterna fatta di alcolismo, violenza e depressione. Oggi, finalmente, è riuscito a mettere radici in una piccola città del New Hampshire, dove ha trovato un gruppo di amici in grado di aiutarlo e un lavoro nell'ospizio in cui quel che resta della sua luccicanza regala agli anziani pazienti l'indispensabile conforto finale. Aiutato da un gatto capace di prevedere il futuro, Torrance diventa Doctor Sleep, il Dottor Sonno. Poi Dan incontra l'evanescente Abra Stone, il cui incredibile dono, la luccicanza più abbagliante di tutti i tempi, riporta in vita i demoni di Dan e lo spinge a ingaggiare una poderosa battaglia per salvare l'esistenza e l'anima della ragazzina. Sulle superstrade d'America, infatti, i membri del Vero Nodo viaggiano in cerca di cibo. Hanno un aspetto inoffensivo: non più giovani, indossano abiti dimessi e sono perennemente in viaggio sui loro camper scassati. Ma come intuisce Dan Torrance, e come imparerà presto a sue spese la piccola Abra, si tratta in realtà di esseri quasi immortali che si nutrono proprio del calore dello shining.

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