![]() ![]() ![]() It’s the girl, whose shining abilities far eclipse Danny’s (she predicted 9/11 as an infant), that gives this sequel its own soul. In one New Hampshire community he finds AA, an honest job at a hospice-where he uses his “shining” to help terminal patients cross over to death, earning him the book’s titular nickname-and an eerie psychic connection with a young girl named Abra. But despite its most conclusive ending, in which both possessed dad Jack Torrance and the haunted Overlook Hotel are destroyed in a spectacular explosion, King admitted one questioned has lingered: Whatever happened to the kid?ĭoctor Sleep finds Danny Torrance, now in his 40s, blunting his childhood demons with booze as he skips from one blackout and no-name town to another. It has become part of popular culture-made famous by Stanley Kubrick’s film and repeatedly spoofed since, from The Simpsons to amateur YouTube trailers. The 1977 novel, about an alcoholic writer who takes a winter caretaker job with his wife and psychically gifted son at a remote resort inhabited by violent ghosts, is one of King’s signature works of horror. In 2009, on stage in a conversation with David Cronenberg in Toronto, Stephen King revealed he had been contemplating writing a sequel to The Shining. ![]()
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