But, this being King, there's more than one Higher Power knocking about and Danny's are not the only demons. The mantras of AA run all the way through it. Doctor Sleep is a book about a recovering alcoholic written by a recovering alcoholic. The Shining was a book by a drinking alcoholic about an alcoholic in the grip of white-knuckle abstinence. He starts to work at a hospice, where he acquires the nickname Doctor Sleep (he uses his powers to help some of the inmates across to the other side). More baggage for his kit bag.ĭanny fetches up in a small town and finds his way into AA. He leaves anyway, and later learns on the psychic wires that mother and child ended up dead. His gift tells him the child is being abused. Rootless and self-loathing, he reaches rock bottom when, as he's leaving the home of a one-night stand, her toddler catches him emptying her purse. To start with, ghosts are the least of his problems. At the novel's outset, Danny, now a grown man, is struggling with three things he inherited from his father: alcoholism, an explosive temper, and the odd leftover ghost from the Overlook. Doctor Sleep picks up with one of that book's only three survivors, Jack's then five-year-old son, Danny, who escaped the Overlook (just) along with his mother, Wendy, and Dick Hallorann, an elderly chef who shared his "shining", or psychic abilities.
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