Doctor Sleep(The Shining #2)-安眠医生

作者：Stephen King

书名：Doctor Sleep(The Shining #2)《安眠医生》

中文简介：《安眠医生》（英语：Doctor Sleep）是史蒂芬·金所写的小说，于2013年出版，是经典作品《鬼店》的续集。2009年，正值《穹顶之下》出版之后，史蒂芬金举办了一个投票，询问读者究竟写《鬼店》的续集《安眠医生》，还是写《黑塔》的外传，结果虽然《安眠医生》以不足一百票胜出，不过史蒂芬金最终决定先写《穿过锁匙孔的风》。直到2011年，接近《穿过锁匙孔的风》正式出版时，才重提写《安眠医生》的计划。最终《安眠医生》荣获2013布拉姆·斯托克奖最佳小说。

英文简介：Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) and the very special 12-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals.

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 12-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 hyper-devoted fans of The Shining and wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon.