Doctor Sleep

Stephen King
Doctor Sleep
2013

É lançado hoje um dos livros mais esperados do ano, a continuação do aclamado bestseller The Shining de Stephen King. Doctor Sleep chega hoje às livrarias de todo o mundo, a tão esperada continuação de um dos livros de terror mais marcantes do século XX. 

Sinceramente não sei se terá sido uma boa opção para Stephen King escrever esta continuação, uma vez que The Shining é um livro muito bom, conhecido e icónico dentro do género. Será que valia mesmo a pena voltar a esta história uma vez que esta tem um fim? Por outro lado, ainda hoje deve andar por aí muito leitor a perguntar-se como terá crescido Danny, o que andará a fazer, como será a sua vida?

"All that we see or seem is but a dream within dream."

On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless - mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky twelve-year-old Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the “steam” that children with the “shining” produce when they are slowly tortured to death.

Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father’s legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant “shining” power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes “Doctor Sleep.”

Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan’s own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra’s soul and survival. This is an epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of devoted readers of The Shining and satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in Stephen's canon.