The Shining · Book 2
Doctor Sleep
- Published
- 24 September 2013
- Pages
- 560
- ISBN-13
- 9781476727653
- Type
- novel
About this book
Doctor Sleep is the second and final book in Stephen King's Shining series, published in September 2013 at 560 pages. It follows The Shining, arriving 36 years after the series opener.
Its place in The Shining
Doctor Sleep is book 2 in the The Shining series. It follows The Shining. See the full The Shining reading order.
Jack Torrance, a struggling writer and recovering alcoholic, takes a winter caretaking job at the isolated Overlook Hotel, moving his wife Wendy and psychic young son Danny into its empty corridors for a season of total isolation. The hotel has a violent history of its own, and it begins working on Jack's already-fraying sanity while Danny's telepathic gift -- the 'shining' -- lets him see the horrors soaking into the walls long before his parents do. Published in 1977, The Shining was King's first hardcover…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781476727653