# Sleeping Beauties - Hardcover

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by **Stephen King** (Author), **Owen King** (Author)

**#1 _NEW YORK TIMES_ BESTSELLER**

**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.

### Author Biography

Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes _Never Flinch_, the short story collection _You Like It Darker (_a _New York Times Book Review_ top ten horror book of 2024), _Holly_ (a _New York Times_ Notable Book of 2023), _Fairy Tale_, _Billy Summers_, _If It Bleeds_, _The Institute_, _Elevation_, _The Outsider_, _Sleeping Beauties_ (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: _End of Watch_, _Finders Keepers_, and _Mr. Mercedes_ (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel _11/22/63_ was named a top ten book of 2011 by _The New York Times Book Review_ and won the _Los Angeles Times_ Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works _The Dark Tower_, _It_, _Pet Sematary_, _Doctor Sleep_, and _Firestarter_ are the basis for major motion pictures, with _It_ now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.

Owen King is the author of the acclaimed novel _The Curator_, _Double Feature,_ and _We're All in This Together: A Novella and Stories._ He is the coauthor of _Intro to Alien Invasion_ and the coeditor of _Who Can Save Us Now? Brand-New Superheroes and Their Amazing (Short) Stories_. He lives in upstate New York with his family.

**Number of Pages:** 720

**Dimensions:** 2.3 x 9.4 x 6.5 IN

**Publication Date:** September 26, 2017

**Accelerated Reader:**

**Quiz Name:** Sleeping Beauties

**Interest Level:** Upper Grades, 9-12

**Reading Level:** 5.7

**Point Value:** 37

## Details

- **Price:** 41.0 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books, Fiction, Horror, Price Written on Book, Supernatural, Suspense, Thrillers

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