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Doctor Sleep

Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 9:50 am
by jhanic
the official website : U.S. publication date for Doctor Sleep has been tentatively set for January 15, 2013


May 8th, 2012 9:08:34 am

Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) and the very special twelve-year-old girl he must save 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 tween 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 readers of The Shining and wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon.
John

Re: Doctor Sleep

Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 1:34 am
by jimimck
Amazon are taking pre orders already

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ ... ibrthew-20

Re: Doctor Sleep

Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 6:13 am
by jhanic
Product Details
Scribner, January 15, 2013
Hardcover, 544 pages
ISBN-10: 1451698844
ISBN-13: 9781451698848
List Price: $30.00

http://books.simonandschuster.com/Do.../9781451698848
http://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Sleep-S.../dp/1451698844

John

Re: Doctor Sleep

Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 7:14 am
by TheCollector
Awesome news, thanks guys!

Re: Doctor Sleep

Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 4:31 am
by stkmw02
Is it just me... or do the links no longer work?

I'd love to get my hands on a first edition first printing, so I want to pre-order well in advance. The last two King books I pre-ordered ended up being second printings. :(

Re: Doctor Sleep

Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 9:22 am
by jhanic
It's not you. It appears that the links were put up prematurely and were taken down after a day or so. When the book is more formally introduced, I'll make sure I put up the new links.

John

Re: Doctor Sleep

Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 1:30 pm
by Mr. Rabbit Trick
The Mod at SKMB states that the release has been delayed, and they don't know the new date yet.

Re: Doctor Sleep

Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 4:26 pm
by ur2ndbiggestfan
I'll just wait until I see it at K-Mart or Target as usual.

Re: Doctor Sleep

Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 7:25 am
by jhanic
Per Ms Mod, at the SKMB:
We've had a couple of news stories this morning so people may have missed that the official release date for Scribner and Hodder & Stoughton has been announced as September 24, 2013.
John

Re: Doctor Sleep

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 2:32 am
by Carter
Where the book at?