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Sleeping Beauties
Contributor(s): King, Stephen (Author), King, Owen (Author)

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ISBN: 150116340X     ISBN-13: 9781501163401
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Thrillers - Suspense
- Fiction | Horror - General
- Fiction | Thrillers - Supernatural
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2017002473
Lexile Measure: 810 HL (High-Low)
Physical Information: 2.3" H x 6.5" W x 9.4" L (2.45 lbs) 720 pages
Features: Ikids, Price on Product
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2017 pg. 12
Publishers Weekly 07/31/2017
Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview 08/15/2017 pg. 9
Booklist 09/01/2017 pg. 59
Library Journal 09/01/2017
BookPage 10/01/2017
Shelf Awareness 10/24/2017
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 195417
Reading Level: 5.7   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 37.0
 
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Publisher Description:
#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.


Contributor Bio(s): King, Owen: - Owen King is the author of the novel Double Feature and We're All in This Together: A Novella and Stories. He is the coauthor of Intro to Alien Invasion and the coeditor of Who Can Save Us Now? Brand-New Superheroes and Their Amazing (Short) Stories. He lives in Upstate New York with his wife, the writer Kelly Braffet, and their daughter.King, Stephen: - Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and an AT&T Audience Network original television series). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower and It are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.
 
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