{"product_id":"sleeping-beauties-9781501163418","title":"Sleeping Beauties","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this spectacular \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling father\/son collaboration that \"barrels along like a freight train\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e), Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAbandoned, left to their increasingly primal urges, the men divide into warring factions, some wanted 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 woman's prison, \u003ci\u003eSleeping Beauties \u003c\/i\u003eis a wildly provocative, gloriously dramatic father-son collaboration that feels particularly urgent and relevant today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes the short story collection \u003ci\u003eYou Like It Darker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHolly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFairy Tale\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBilly Summers\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIf It Bleeds\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Institute\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eElevation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Outsider\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSleeping Beauties\u003c\/i\u003e (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: \u003ci\u003eEnd of Watch\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFinders Keepers\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMr. Mercedes\u003c\/i\u003e (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel \u003ci\u003e11\/22\/63\u003c\/i\u003e was named a top ten book of 2011 by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e and won the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize for Mystery\/Thriller. His epic works \u003ci\u003eThe Dark Tower\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIt\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePet Sematary\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDoctor Sleep\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFirestarter\u003c\/i\u003e are the basis for major motion pictures, with \u003ci\u003eIt \u003c\/i\u003enow the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOwen King is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Curator\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Double Feature\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWe're All in This Together: A Novella and Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the coauthor of \u003ci\u003eSleeping Beauties \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eIntro to Alien Invasion\u003c\/i\u003e and the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eWho Can Save Us Now? Brand-New Superheroes and Their Amazing (Short) Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in upstate New York with his family.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Gallery Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50599041302802,"sku":"9781501163418","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_df7af301-edea-4c79-953d-330725d3efc8.jpg?v=1732195647","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sleeping-beauties-9781501163418","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}