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Sleeping Beauties
From the Charleston event:
He used this story to reveal that he and his son, Owen King, have co-authored a novel called “Sleeping Beauties.” The novel, King said, is set in the fictional Dueling, West Virginia, and revolves around a women's prison in an area that is similar to Moundsville. - See more at: http://www.wvgazettemail.com/news/20160610/author-stephen-king-stops-in-charleston#sthash.Bpq7NLut.dpuf
He used this story to reveal that he and his son, Owen King, have co-authored a novel called “Sleeping Beauties.” The novel, King said, is set in the fictional Dueling, West Virginia, and revolves around a women's prison in an area that is similar to Moundsville. - See more at: http://www.wvgazettemail.com/news/20160610/author-stephen-king-stops-in-charleston#sthash.Bpq7NLut.dpuf
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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?
Set in a small Appalachian town whose primary employer is a women's prison, SLEEPING BEAUTIES is a wildly provocative, gloriously absorbing father/son collaboration between Stephen King and Owen King.
"The way that it worked was we went back and forth, like tennis, like the book is the ball," King said. "I'd have it for three or four weeks and he'd have it for maybe three or four weeks or maybe a little bit longer. He's a slower composer than I am, but he's very, very good — very sharp, very funny."
King, 69, said there's been a lot of interest in the novel even before its publication, particularly with the ever-relevant topic of women's rights.
"It just turned out when we were writing this book, it never even occurred to us all of a sudden the whole question of women's rights and the way men that behave toward women (would arise.)" King said. "I think in a way what made us a fortune was that tape of Trump saying, 'I grab them by the p---y.' It just woke people up in some way."
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PW Reviews 2017 July #5
This delicious first collaboration between Stephen King (Doctor Sleep) and his son Owen (Intro to Alien Invasion)
is a horror-tinged realistic fantasy that imagines what could happen if
most of the women of the world fall asleep, leaving men on their own.
No one in Dooling County figures the sickness will affect their rural
Appalachian life, but TV images of women asleep and unable to be woken,
with white membranous stuff wrapped around their heads, makes residents
undeniably distraught. Dr. Clinton Norcross of the Dooling Women's
Correctional Facility finds himself unexpectedly in charge of 114 female
prisoners when an unhappy guard slips a bunch of Xanax into the coffee
of warden Janice Coates, causing her to fall asleep and succumb to the
sickness. Clinton's wife, county sheriff Lila Norcross, is called to the
scene of a double murder and explosion; en route, she nearly runs down a
half-naked woman standing in the middle of the highway. That woman,
Evie, seems to have some connection to the peculiar goings-on, though no
one knows what it might be. The authors' writing is seamless and
naturally flowing. The book gets off to a slow start because of the
amount of setup needed, but once the action begins, it barrels along
like a freight train. Agent: Chuck Verrill, Darhansoff & Verrill Literary; Amy Williams, Williams Company. (Sept.)
Library Journal
LJ Reviews 2017 September #1Women
Copyright 2017 Library Journal.worldwide are falling prey to an unusual sleeping sickness that shrouds
them in a white cocoon. Anyone who tries to interrupt their
otherworldly slumber are killed, as the somnambulic women turn
murderous. In a small, economically depressed Appalachian town, Evie
emerges half-naked from a trailer park to smite an abusive drug dealer
before she's arrested and put in the local women's prison just as the
outbreak reaches a fever pitch. While the males ponder a world without
women, the enigmatic Evie remains unaffected. Meanwhile, the sleeping
women are in an alternate dimension, a near-postapocalyptic version of
their hometown. Following the renewed interest in Margaret Atwood's The
Handmaid's Tale and an increasing climate of wolf-whistle politics, this
examination of gender stereotypes, systems of oppression, and pervasive
misogyny within American culture feels especially timely, though the
exploration is centered in a cisgender, fairly heteronormative
experience. VERDICT Violent,
subversive, and compulsively readable, this latest novel from King (Mr.
Mercedes), collaborating here with son Owen (Double Feature), derives
more horror from its realistic depiction of violence against women than
from the supernatural elements.—Kiera Parrott, School Library Journal
and Library Journal
Booklist
Booklist Reviews 2017 September #1A
sleeping sickness quickly takes over the world, affecting only females.
As they drift off (and enter a different dimension, the reader soon
learns), a white, mossy substance covers them, leaving them in a sort of
cocoon. No one knows why or how this is happening, but it soon becomes
clear that trying to wake any of these sleeping beauties results in
deadly, horrifying acts. Evie appears in town out of nowhere and seems
to be the only female unaffected by this event—but she's got
supernatural powers, natch. The Kings set their tale in a small
Appalachian town, home to a women's prison. Dr. Clinton Norcross, the
staff psychiatrist, finds himself in charge as all of the female
leadership falls asleep. It might not seem so hard to run a prison of
sleeping women, right? Well, it's not so easy when Evie is there, still
awake and doing strange things, and Norcross' wife, Lila—the town
sheriff—succumbs despite her best efforts. This allegorical fantasy has a
rich premise but is overly long, which may put off readers who aren't
already King fans.HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Two Kings in one, father and
son, are bound to attract readers. Copyright 2017 Booklist Reviews.