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Sleeping Beauties

By Stephen King and Owen King
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Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King explores a chilling scenario where women mysteriously vanish from the world, sparking high-stakes tension and profound societal upheaval. This gripping thriller barrels along with relentless momentum, weaving suspense and speculative fiction in a unique father-son collaboration.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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Ideal for readers who enjoy intense crime and thriller novels with speculative elements and fans of Stephen King's storytelling.

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Set in a small Appalachian town whose primary employer is a women's prison, this wildly provocative, gloriously absorbing father/son collaboration tells the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men?

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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 disappear.

Sleeping Beauties explores a world in which an otherworldly phenomenon causes all women to fall asleep, enveloped in cocoon-like gauze. As they sleep, they go to another place. If they’re awakened or the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed, the women become feral and spectacularly violent. As the men are left to their increasingly primal devices, the question arises: Is the world a better place without them?

In the small town of Dooling, the women have gone to sleep, leaving the men to their own devices. Eve Black, a mysterious woman who seems to be immune to the sleeping disease, appears in the town, raising questions and suspicion. Can Eve provide answers, or is she leading the men further into chaos?

Sleeping Beauties is a richly allegorical novel that wrestles with gender, power, and the balance of humanity versus primal instincts. This gripping and vivid novel from the master of suspense and his son is sure to captivate readers.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781501163418

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 18 September 2018

Country: United States

Imprint: Simon & Schuster

Edition: Unabridged edition

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 41.0mm

Width: 135.0mm

Height: 208.0mm

Weight: 612g

Pages: 720

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Crime & Thriller Fiction General Fiction Horror & Supernatural Owen King Stephen King

About the Author

Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Never Flinch, the short story collection You Like It Darker (a New York Times Book Review top ten horror book of 2024), Holly (a New York Times Notable Book of 2023), Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, 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 a television series streaming on Peacock). 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, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, 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.

Owen King is the author of the acclaimed novel The Curator, 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 family.

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