In this spectacular father son collaboration Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of
high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men? 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. Set in a small Appalachian town whose primary
employer is a women's prison Sleeping Beauties is a wildly provocative gloriously dramatic
father-son collaboration that feels particularly urgent and relevant today.
