Stephen King: Doctor Sleep  Stephen King: Doctor Sleep   Doctor
Sleep  Author: Stephen King Publisher: Scribner  It’s odd how
closely Stephen King’s new novel, Doctor Sleep, parallels
NOS4A2, the latest by his son Joe Hill. Conceptually, the two
books have a lot in common: Both are about people whose
extraordinary talents draw monstrous attention when they’re
children, warp their later years, and only let them regain a
semblance of normality later in life. Both books start with the
protagonists’ childhood encounters with horrific supernatural
predators. Both books then blitz past years lost to addiction,
and the protagonists’ attempts to drown their nightmarish
memories and present stresses in consciousness-altering
substances. Both protagonists eventually kick their habits in
adulthood, and are stabilized by the need to protect a child
targeted by a malevolent vampiric entity with a propensity for
kidnapping. The two books even puckishly reference each other’s
worlds, with King continuing the in-joke of casu