Sleeping beauties / Stephen King ; Owen King.
Material type: TextPublisher: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 718 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781473665194; 1473665191; 1473665205; 9781473665200 (paperback)Subject(s): Viruses -- Fiction | Violence in women -- Fiction | Women prisoners -- Fiction | Violence in men -- Fiction | Demonology -- FictionGenre/Form: Horror fiction. DDC classification: 813.6 Summary: All around the world, something is happening to women when they fall asleep; they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed, the women become feral and spectacularly violent... In the small town of Dooling, West Virginia, the virus is spreading through a women's prison, affecting all the inmates except one. Soon, word spreads about the mysterious Evie, who seems able to sleep, and wake. Is she a medical anomaly or a demon to be slain? The abandoned men, left to their increasingly primal devices, are fighting each other, while Dooling's Sheriff, Lila Norcross, is just fighting to stay awake. And the sleeping women are about to open their eyes to a new world altogether...Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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All around the world, something is happening to women when they fall asleep; they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed, the women become feral and spectacularly violent... In the small town of Dooling, West Virginia, the virus is spreading through a women's prison, affecting all the inmates except one. Soon, word spreads about the mysterious Evie, who seems able to sleep, and wake. Is she a medical anomaly or a demon to be slain? The abandoned men, left to their increasingly primal devices, are fighting each other, while Dooling's Sheriff, Lila Norcross, is just fighting to stay awake. And the sleeping women are about to open their eyes to a new world altogether...
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