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Sleeping Beauties : a novel

ISBN: 1501163418
ISBN: 9781501163418
ISBN: 150116340X
ISBN: 9781501163401
Physical Description: x, 702 pages ; 25 cm print
Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2017.
Copyright: &copy;2017

King, Stephen 1947- (author.). King, Owen (author.).

Summary: 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.