Doctor Sleep
Books Zusak The Book Thief
Stephen King Markus
“All that we see or seem is but a dream
within a dream.” On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot
travel in search of sustenance. They look
harmless - mostly old, lots of polyester, and
married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance
knows, and spunky twelve-year-old Abra
Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the “steam” that children with
the “shining” produce when they are slowly
tortured to death.
Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook
Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood
year, Dan has been drifting for decades,
desperate to shed his father’s legacy of
despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally,
he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA
community that sustains him, and a job at a
nursing home where his remnant ? ??shining”
power provides the crucial final comfort to
the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes “Doctor Sleep.”
Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone,
and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest
shining ever seen, that reignites Dan’s own
demons and summons him to a battle for
Abra’s soul and survival. This is an epic war
between good and evil, a gory, glorious
story that will thrill the millions of devoted
readers of The Shining and satisfy anyone
new to the territory of this icon in Stephen’s
canon.
It’s just a small story really, about among
other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish
fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . .
Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak’s groundbreaking new novel is
the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl
living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches
out a meager existence for herself by
stealing when she encounters something
she can’t resist–books. With the help of her
accordion-playing foster father, she learns
to read and shares her stolen books with
her neighbors during bombing raids as well
as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau.
This is an unforgettable story about the
ability of books to feed the soul