Sleeping Beauties : a novel / Stephen King and Owen King.
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.
In this father-son collaboration, the authors tell the story of what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men. Set in a small Appalachian town whose primary employer is a women's prison, 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. While they sleep they go to another place. The men of our world are abandoned, left to their increasingly primal devices. One woman, however, the mysterious Evie, is immune to the blessing or curse of the sleeping disease. Is Evie a medical anomaly to be studied, or is she a demon who must be slain?
Record details
- ISBN: 9781501163401
- ISBN: 150116340X
- ISBN: 9781501163418
- ISBN: 1501163418
- Physical Description: x, 702 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First Scribner edition
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2017
Content descriptions
- Target Audience Note:
- HL810L Lexile
- Study Program Information Note:
- Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.7 37 195417.
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Women > Fiction.
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Appalachian Region > Fiction. - Genre:
- Dystopian fiction.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Jacksonville Main Library | FIC KING (Text) | 36015002704506 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 08/06/2026 |
| Richlands Branch Library | FIC KING (Text) | 36015001312129 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Sneads Ferry Branch Library | FIC KING (Text) | 36015000548798 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Swansboro Branch Library | FIC KING (Text) | 36015000230462 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
