Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged.
Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. From his sophomore year at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. He came to support the anti-war movement on the Orono campus, arriving at his stance from a conservative view that the war in Vietnam was unconstitutional. He graduated in 1970, with a B.A. in English and qualified to teach on the high school level. A draft board examination immediately post-graduation found him 4-F on grounds of high blood pressure, limited vision, flat feet, and punctured eardrums.
He met Tabitha Spruce in the stacks of the Fogler Library at the University, where they both worked as students; they married in January of 1971. As Stephen was unable to find placement as a teacher immediately, the Kings lived on his earnings as a laborer at an industrial laundry, and her student loan and savings, with an occasional boost from a short story sale to men's magazines.
Stephen made his first professional short story sale ("The Glass Floor") to Startling Mystery Stories in 1967. Throughout the early years of his marriage, he continued to sell stories to men's magazines. Many were gathered into the Night Shift collection or appeared in other anthologies.
In the fall of 1971, Stephen began teaching English at Hampden Academy, the public high school in Hampden, Maine. Writing in the evenings and on the weekends, he continued to produce short stories and to work on novels.
Amazon.com Review
An Amazon Best Book of the Month, September 2013: What ever happened to Danny Torrance? For the 36 years since The Shining was first published, the answer has been left to our imaginations. Finally we catch up with Dan as his creator envisions him: a flawed middle-aged man with a tragic past -- his special gift, "shining," dulled with age and alcohol. He's "Doctor Sleep" now, a hospice worker who eases the end of patients' lives. He also happens to be the only one who can help a little girl with her own special gift. This is not simply The Shining II. Not only does this story stand on its own, it manages to magnify the supernatural quality that first drew us to young Danny, expanding its mystery and its intensity in a way that might even reach beyond this book into the rest of the King-iverse... and beyond. (Easter egg alert: look for the nod to King's son Joe Hill's recent book N0S4A2.) --Robin A. Rothman
From Publishers Weekly
Iconic horror author King (Joyland) picks up the narrative threads of The Shining many years on. Young psychic Danny Torrance has become a middle-aged alcoholic (he now goes by Dan), bearing his powers and his guilt as equal burdens. A lucky break gets him a job in a hospice in a small New England town. Using his abilities to ease the passing of the terminally ill, he remains blissfully unaware of the actions of the True Knot, a caravan of human parasites crisscrossing the map in their RVs as they search for children with the shining (psychic abilities of the kind that Dan possesses), upon whom they feed. When a girl named Abra Stone is born with powers that dwarf Dan&'s, she attracts the attention of the True Knot&'s leader—the predatory Rose the Hat. Dan is forced to help Abra confront the Knot, and face his own lingering demons. Less terrifying than its famous predecessor, perhaps because of the author&'s obvious affection for even the most repellant characters, King&'s latest is still a gripping, taut read that provides a satisfying conclusion to Danny Torrance&'s story. Agent: Chuck Verrill, Darhansoff & Verrill Literary Agents. (Oct.)
From Booklist
King, not one given to sequels, throws fans a big, bloody bone with this long-drooled-for follow-up to The Shining (1977). The events of the Overlook Hotel had resounding effects upon Danny Torrance, and decades later he’s a drunk like his father, wondering what his battle with the “ghosties” was even for. Dan still feels the pull of the shining, though, and it lands him in a small New England town where he finds friends, an AA group, and a job at a hospice, where his ability to ease patients into death earns him the moniker Doctor Sleep. Ten years sober, he telepathically meets the “great white whale” of shining—12-year-old Abra—who has drawn the attention of the True Knot, an evil RV caravan of shining-eating quasi-vampires, one part Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show and one part Manson’s dune-buggy attack battalion. Though the book is very poignantly bookended, the battle between Dan/Abra and the True’s “Queen Bitch of Castle Hell” is relegated to a psychic slugfest—not really the stuff of high tension. Regardless, seeing phrases like “REDRUM” and “officious prick” in print again is pretty much worth the asking price. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Even for a King book, this is high profile. The Shining is often considered King’s best novel, so even lapsed fans should come out of the woodwork for this one. --Daniel Kraus
Review
Obviously a masterpiece, probably the best supernatural novel in a hundred years. -- Peter Straub on The Shining The most remarkable storyteller in modern American literature. -- Mark Lawson, Guardian
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永恒的閃靈 ◎ 東漁 作為《閃靈》的續篇,《長眠醫生》被讀者寄予太多厚望,同斯蒂芬·金的另一些恐怖小說一樣,《長眠醫生》無疑是精彩再現。斯蒂芬·金善於渲染氣氛,使得整體布局詭譎叵測,帶著讀者進入意識深處,形成體驗式閱讀,猶如深陷其中,讓你始終逃不脫這種壓抑...
評分記不得曾經是在哪一本外國小說中讀到過,有一位年少成名的作傢,趁著處於創作高峰期內,便在30歲之前一口氣寫下瞭很多部作品,並將紙稿藏在保險箱內,待將來靈感枯竭時可以隨機一部又一部地拋齣來,好嚮媒體和公眾隱瞞自己江郎纔盡的真相。所以,就會齣現大概這樣的情況:50歲...
評分之前在書店挑的時候,看見有兩種不同的cover,這本有眼神詭異的貓貓,深得我心。 整本書前前後後斷斷續續看瞭好久,中間插著還看瞭其他書,因為前半部分讀起來讓人有點失落。本來以為續集應該延續瞭閃靈的breathtaking的感覺,期待中應該是Dan從小經曆瞭一係列毀童年的...
評分「人生就像輪子,其唯一的任務就是轉動,總是會轉迴到起始的地方。」史蒂芬.金寫道。於是乎,時隔30多年,早已在文壇站穩一席之地的史蒂芬.金再度轉迴到《鬼店》(The Shining,1977),迴到那個曾將自我投射其中的故事裡。在那裡,有曾受酗酒之苦的史蒂芬.金,也有在寫作之...
評分《長眠醫生》在史蒂芬金的小說裏隻能算是中等,從情節的角度來說,還有點偏下。還是熟悉的套路,熟悉的故事。特異功能,有悲傷過去的中年男子,小鎮,喪心病狂,卻又有自己溫情一麵的反派,大決鬥。這些都是他熟悉的情節,熟悉的套路,從《神秘火焰》,《死亡區域》,《綠裏》...
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哈…大概讀瞭半個月吧 kindle讀原版書真的體驗很好????然後故事吧…情節過於平穩瞭 主角們一直很順利 反派幾百號人狂死…哈哈哈哈哈 想讀《危情十日》
評分Shining 2, 史蒂芬金的新作,算是最近讀的最具娛樂性書籍。在亞馬遜上排名居高不下,也的確不愧為驚悚片之王。適閤拿來消磨不想單純被浪費的時間。不過中文版貌似還沒有,直接挑戰英文原版,吃力之餘影響閱讀整體性。
評分為瞭這本書專門去看瞭shining,但比起閃靈那種逼仄的分分鍾齣事的感覺來說還是更喜歡這本。剛開始的時候以為Danny走上瞭他爸的老路,看瞭一半的時候纔覺得啊這個男人真的好暖。超級喜歡Abra這樣聰明的有一點小temper的小姑娘,也特彆喜歡她和Dan一起打怪獸的故事(雖然這個反方真的有點二= =)。最喜歡的場景是她和Dan在下午陽光明媚的圖書館門前用腦洞交流的場景,想起來就覺得暖得不行。
評分因為豆瓣上很少有人評論原版書,有些書也沒辦法及時的引進,中文版翻譯水平的確有限,所以,自己看完瞭一定要來評論一下。為瞭以後有興趣的筒子們,參考一下。這本書其實是the shining的續寫,如果看過the shining的人最好瞭,個人覺得還是這本書比較好看,有可能是我the shining我看的是中文版的原因。中文版翻譯多種多樣,我不太喜歡。dan 和abra的故事,希望能搬上熒幕。
評分今天看到 Ewan 演丹尼的消息,來補充一下事隔兩年的書評⋯⋯本書基本就是一個百閤大劇的劇本,女性角色又多樣又有趣,韆裏眼小女孩 Abra(和一個很棒的奶奶),韆裏眼+殺人如麻的冷漠教主大姐姐 Rose,影院殺男人的黑寡婦(忘瞭叫啥),還有細緻入微的百閤上床描寫,甚至還有丹尼那個死在身邊的姘頭,每個女性角色都各具風采;結果最先公佈的卡司居然是相較而言最無關緊要的男主丹尼,WHO CARES??!! 還有邊看書邊把 Ruby Rose 代入 Rose 來看,太刺激瞭⋯⋯(雖然選角肯定沒她的份畢竟演技稀爛x
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