Sleeping Beauties A Novel
Sleeping Beauties A Novel by Stephen King is a first edition published by Simon and Schuster on September 26, 2017. This 702-page work explores a thought-provoking scenario where women mysteriously disappear from the world as they fall into a deep sleep, becoming enveloped in a cocoon-like gauze. The narrative unfolds in a small Appalachian town, where the absence of women leads to chaos among the men, who are left to confront their primal instincts and the societal breakdown that ensues.
Readers will find a blend of horror, science fiction, and supernatural elements as the story delves into the implications of this sleeping disease. The character of Eve Black, who remains immune to the phenomenon, becomes a focal point of conflict, raising questions about her role in this new reality. As factions emerge among the men, the tension escalates, revealing themes of violence and survival in an apocalyptic setting. This edition presents a unique collaboration between Stephen King and Owen King, offering a narrative that resonates with contemporary issues.
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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.
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