Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes the short story collection You Like It Darker, 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. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now 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.
Owen King is the author of The Curator, Double Feature, and We're All in This Together: A Novella and Stories. He is the coauthor of Sleeping Beauties and Intro to Alien Invasion and the coeditor of Who Can Save Us Now? Brand-New Superheroes and Their Amazing (Short) Stories. He lives in upstate New York with his family.
"The novel provides enough action, thrills and humor to keep
readers burning the midnight oil....There's comfort to be found in
tales such as this... Sleeping Beauties is a well-tooled horror
thriller, a worthy venture from a productive family business."
--San Francisco Chronicle
"Sleeping Beauties is an ambitious work that combines some age-old
Stephen King themes with a distinctly sci-fi premise. Sleeping
Beauties is no "take your kid to work" project on Stephen King's
behalf. Owen King is an accomplished author in his own right, and
their collaboration reflects positively on both. No matter which
King was tapping the keys, readers will enjoy a riveting novel with
plenty of characters to root for, and to root against ... and, in
another King trademark, to root both for and against."-- Bangor
Daily News
"A fast-paced thriller [that is] ambitious and sympathetic,
Sleeping Beauties is both a love letter to women everywhere and an
incisive look at what drives men to violence, neatly wrapped in
enough fantasy elements to soften the more caustic edges of the
commentary. From "Carrie" to "Dolores Claiborne" to "Lisey's Story"
and beyond, Stephen King's compassion for women is an identifying
characteristic of much of his work, and "Sleeping Beauties"
continues the trend. The Kings have created deeply textured women
to populate their book."-- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"Another horror blockbuster, Mercedes and all, from maestro King
and his heir apparent...In a kind of untold Greek tragedy meets
Deliverance meets--well, bits of Mr. Mercedes and The Shawshank
Redemption, perhaps--King and King, father and son, take their time
putting all the pieces into play: brutish men, resourceful women
who've had quite enough, alcohol, and always a subtle sociological
subtext, in this case of rural poverty and dreams sure to be
dashed...A blood-splattered pleasure."-- Kirkus Reviews (starred
review)
"Entertaining. . . Sleeping Beauties is a bulging, colourful epic;
a super-sized happy meal, liberally salted with supporting
characters and garnished with splashes of arterial ketchup. This
epic feels so vital and fresh."-- The Guardian
"Following the renewed interest in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's
Tale and an increasing climate of wolf-whistle politics, this
examination of gender stereotypes, systems of oppression, and
pervasive misogyny within American culture feels especially
timely...The large cast of characters allows for a multitude of
narrative perspectives--from both the affected women and the men
they've left behind. Violent, subversive, and compulsively
readable. The true horror of this father-son-penned novel derives
more from its unflinchingly realistic depiction of hatred and
violence against women than from the supernatural elements."--
Library Journal
"It's a violent, dystopian thrill ride that will leave you
horrified- and hooked."--People
"King fans who enjoy his blunt language and vivid gore will find
lots to like."-- Associated Press
"Stephen King and son team up for a beauty of a horror tale [that
is] epic, ambitious, heartbreaking and, when it comes to its
central horrors, all too timely. Sleeping Beauties melds the elder
King's talent for exploring the darker sides of human nature when
people are thrust into terrifying situations with his youngest
son's gift for juggling multiple genres and complex characters. The
final chapters bring all their skills together in a fast-paced,
explosive finale and emotional aftermath. A thought-provoking work
that examines a litany of modern-day issues."-- USA Today
"This delicious first collaboration between Stephen King and his
son Owen is a horror-tinged realistic fantasy that imagines what
could happen if most of the women of the world fall asleep, leaving
men on their own. The authors' writing is seamless and naturally
flowing. Once the action begins, [SLEEPING BEAUTIES] barrels along
like a freight train."-- Publishers Weekly
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