Sleeping Beauties: A Novel
(Libby/OverDrive eBook, Kindle)
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Scribner , 2017.
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this spectacular father/son collaboration, 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 wanting 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 women’s prison, Sleeping Beauties is a wildly provocative, gloriously dramatic father-son collaboration that feels particularly urgent and relevant today.
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Format
eBook, Kindle
Street Date
09/26/2017
Language
English
ISBN
9781501163425
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
King, S., & King, O. (2017). Sleeping Beauties: A Novel . Scribner.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)King, Stephen and Owen King. 2017. Sleeping Beauties: A Novel. Scribner.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)King, Stephen and Owen King. Sleeping Beauties: A Novel Scribner, 2017.
Harvard Citation (style guide)King, S. and King, O. (2017). Sleeping beauties: a novel. Scribner.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)King, Stephen, and Owen King. Sleeping Beauties: A Novel Scribner, 2017.
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