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''Doctor Sleep'' is a novel by Stephen King, a sequel to King's novel ''The Shining'' (1977), released in September 2013.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Doctor Sleep )〕 King first mentioned the idea in November 2009. The author's official website confirmed the project on September 26, 2011. The audiobook edition of Stephen King's 2012 novel ''The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole'', released on April 24, 2012, contains the novel's prologue read by the author.〔http://www.stephenking.com/other/press_releases/wind_audio_press_release.pdf〕 The e-book publication of ''In the Tall Grass'', a novella written by King and his son Joe Hill, contains the text of this excerpt.〔(In the Tall Grass - eBook & Audiobook Coming October 9th )〕 Describing the novel on his official site, King stated that it is "a return to balls-to-the-wall, keep-the-lights-on horror".〔 ''Doctor Sleep'' reached the first position on ''The New York Times'' Best Seller lists for print and ebook fiction (combined), hardcover fiction, and ebook fiction. ''Doctor Sleep'' won the 2013 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel. 〔http://horror.org/winners-2013-bram-stoker-awards/〕 ==Background information== On November 19, 2009, while on a promotional tour in Toronto, Canada for his latest novel ''Under the Dome'', during a reading at the Canon Theatre being moderated by the filmmaker David Cronenberg, Stephen King described to the audience an idea for a sequel novel to his 1977 novel ''The Shining''. The story, King said, would follow a character from the original novel, Danny Torrance, now in his 40s, living in New Hampshire where he works as an orderly at a hospice and helps terminally ill patients pass away with the aid of some extraordinary powers. Later, on December 1, 2009, Stephen King posted a poll on his official website, asking visitors to vote for which book he should write next, ''Doctor Sleep'' or the next Dark Tower novel: Voting ended on December 31, 2009, and it was revealed that ''Doctor Sleep'' received 5,861 votes, while ''The Wind Through the Keyhole'' received 5,812. On September 23, 2011, Stephen King received the Mason Award at the Fall for the Book event at the George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, during which he read an excerpt from ''Doctor Sleep''. The author's official site confirmed three days later that King was currently working on the novel. King finished work on the first draft in early November 2011. On February 19, 2012, King read the beginning section of ''Doctor Sleep'' at the Savannah Book Festival, in Savannah, Georgia. In an interview with ''Entertainment Weekly'', King revealed that he had hired researcher Rocky Wood to work on the continuity between ''The Shining'' and ''Doctor Sleep''.〔(Stephen King: New details of 'The Shining' sequel 'Doctor Sleep' | Shelf Life | EW.com )〕 The story was partly inspired by Oscar, a therapy cat who allegedly is able to predict the deaths of terminally ill patients; says King, "I thought to myself: ‘I want to write a story about that.’ And then I made the connection with Danny Torrance as an adult, working in a hospice. I thought: ‘That’s it. I’m gonna write this book.' The cat had to be there. It always takes two things for me to get going. It’s like the cat was the transmission and Danny was the motor." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Doctor Sleep (novel)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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