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Sleeping Beauties

by Stephen King
Owen King
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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.
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Publisher: Scribner
Awards:

Kindle Book

  • Release date: September 26, 2017

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9781501163425
  • File size: 2957 KB
  • Release date: September 26, 2017

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781501163425
  • File size: 4593 KB
  • Release date: September 26, 2017
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Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook

subjects

Fiction Horror Science Fiction Thriller

Languages

English

Levels

ATOS Level:5.7
Lexile® Measure:810
Interest Level:9-12(UG)
Text Difficulty:3-4

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.
Expand title description text
Fiction Horror Science Fiction Thriller
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Scribner

    Awards:

    Kindle Book
    Release date: September 26, 2017

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9781501163425
    File size: 2957 KB
    Release date: September 26, 2017

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9781501163425
    File size: 4593 KB
    Release date: September 26, 2017

  • Creators
  • Formats
    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook
  • Languages
    English
  • Levels
    ATOS Level: 5.7
    Lexile® Measure: 810
    Interest Level: 9-12(UG)
    Text Difficulty: 3-4
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