Sleeping Beauties

#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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 09/26/2017
ISBN: 9781501163401
Pages: 720
Weight: 2.45lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.50w x 2.30d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2017 pg. 12
Publishers Weekly 07/31/2017
Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview 08/15/2017 pg. 9
Booklist 09/01/2017 pg. 59
Library Journal 09/01/2017
BookPage 10/01/2017
Shelf Awareness 10/24/2017

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 195417 / Sleeping Beauties
Reading Level: 5.7 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 37