![]() ![]() Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Holly, 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. 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. One woman, however, the mysterious Evie, is immune to the blessing or curse of the sleeping disease. ![]() The men of our world are abandoned, left to their increasingly primal devices. 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. 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. 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? ![]() Featuring a conversation with the authors! ![]()
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