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In this spectacular New York Times bestselling father/son collaboration that "barrels along like a freight train" (Publishers Weekly), Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men? 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 wanted 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 woman's prison, Sleeping Beauties is a wildly provocative, gloriously dramatic father-son collaboration that feels particularly urgent and relevant today.
- Format: TradePaperback
- Author: King, Stephen
- ISBN: 9781501163418
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 8.20 x 1.60
- Number Of Pages: 720
- Publication Year: 2018
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Peter M. - 6 years 3 months agoHard to tell the difference between Owen and his dad.
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Stephen and Owen King are Great Collaborators
Sandre M. - 6 years 3 months agoThis is a great collaboration between writers who are both experts at suspense and horror. Strong characterizations and compelling plotting give the reader such a strong sense of being in the moment that you begin to worry about feeling sleepy while you read (like the hapless female characters in the story). One thing I've always loved about King's writing is his exploration of human nature and this book did not disappoint. #SummerReading