Sleeping beauties
by King, Stephen
Edition statement:First Scribner hardcover edition. Published by : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc (New York, NY) Physical details: x, 702 pages 25 cm ISBN:9781501163401; 150116340X.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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.
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