Bøger af Owen King

Rosernes torne af Stephen King og Owen King er provokerende, tankevækkende og fascinerende bog fra far/søn parret Stephen King og Owen King.I en så nær fremtid, at det nærmest kunne være nu, rammes alle kvinder af en mystisk virus, når de falder i søvn. De bliver indhyllet i en tynd kokon, og mens de sover forlader kvindernes bevidsthed vores verden. Hvis man forstyrrer den skrøbelige kokon, de befinder sig i, vækker man kvinderne, der vender tilbage i en vild og overraskende voldelig trance. Over hele kloden er mændene overladt til dem selv og til deres stigende primale drifter. Men en enkelt kvinde ved navn Evie viser sig at være immun over for den mystiske sovesyge – en velsignelse eller forbandelse? Er hun en anomali, der bør studeres nærmere? Eller er hun måske en dæmon, der i virkeligheden bør jages?   Rosernes torne udspiller sig i en by i de appalachiske bjerge, hvis hovedfunktion er dets kvindefængsel. Stephen King og Owen Kings Rosernes torne er en gribende og absorberende fortælling, der er yderst tankevækkende.Uanset om du elsker Stephen King eller skal til at læse hans værker for første gang, er denne kollaboration med sønnen et must read. Gå ikke glip af denne bog af far/søn parret Stephen King og Owen King. Rosernes torne af Stephen King og Owen King er en bog i særklasse. 

I en nær fremtid rammer den mystiske Aurora-virus kvinder, når de lægger sig til at sove. De omsluttes af en tynd kokon, og i søvnen forlader deres bevidsthed denne verden. Forstyrrer man kokonens sarte ydre, vækkes kvinderne til en vild og voldelig trance.Klodens mænd er overladt til sine i stigende grad primale drifter. Men en eneste kvinde, Evie, er immun over for den sælsomme sovesyge. Er Evie en anomali, der bør studeres, eller en dæmon, der bør jages?Nye King-læsere kan starte her!Om forfatteren:Stephen King er født i 1947 i Portland, Maine. Som ung læste han engelsk på University of Maine, hvor han skrev en ugentlig klumme “King’s Garbage Truck” for universitetsbladet The Maine Campus. Henover en bogstak på universitetets bibliotek hvor han var studentermedarbejder, mødte han sin viv Tabitha Spruce som han har været gift med siden 1971.Med over 350 millioner bøger solgt verden over, er Stephen King en forfatter det er nærmest umuligt at overse. Den ultraproduktive herre har i løbet af sit 66-årige liv udgivet over 50 romaner såvel som en række samlede fortællinger og ikke-fiktion. Hans bøger er oversat til 38 sprog og mange af dem er blevet udødeliggjort på det hvide lærred. Disse tæller blandt andet filmene En verden udenfor, Ondskabens Hotel, It og Den grønne mil. Alt i alt er Stephen King en forfatter af imponerende format.

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? All around the world, something is happening to women when they fall asleep; they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed, the women become feral and spectacularly violent... In the small town of Dooling, West Virginia, the virus is spreading through a women's prison, affecting all the inmates except one. Soon, word spreads about the mysterious Evie, who seems able to sleep - and wake. Is she a medical anomaly or a demon to be slain? The abandoned men, left to their increasingly primal devices, are fighting each other, while Dooling's Sheriff, Lila Norcross, is just fighting to stay awake. And the sleeping women are about to open their eyes to a new world altogether...

"It begins in an unnamed city nicknamed "the Fairest", it is distinguished by many things from the river fair to the mountains that split the municipality in half; its theaters and many museums; the Morgue Ship; and, like all cities, but maybe especially so, by its essential unmappability. Dora, a former domestic servant at the university has a secret desire--to find where her brother went after he died, believing that the answer lies within The Museum of Psykical Research, where he worked when Dora was a child. With the city amidst a revolutionary upheaval, where citizens like Robert Barnes, her lover and a student radical, are now in positions of authority, Dora contrives to gain the curatorship of the half-forgotten museum only to find it all but burnt to the ground, with the neighboring museums oddly untouched. Robert offers her one of these, The National Museum of the Worker. However, neither this museum, nor the street it is hidden away on, nor Dora herself, are what they at first appear to be. Set against the backdrop of a nation on the verge of collapse, Dora's search for the truth behind the mystery she's long concealed will unravel a monstrous conspiracy and bring her to the edge of worlds."--

"It begins in an unnamed city nicknamed "the Fairest", it is distinguished by many things from the river fair to the mountains that split the municipality in half; its theaters and many museums; the Morgue Ship; and, like all cities, but maybe especially so, by its essential unmappability. Dora, a former domestic servant at the university has a secret desire--to find where her brother went after he died, believing that the answer lies within The Museum of Psykical Research, where he worked when Dora was a child. With the city amidst a revolutionary upheaval, where citizens like Robert Barnes, her lover and a student radical, are now in positions of authority, Dora contrives to gain the curatorship of the half-forgotten museum only to find it all but burnt to the ground, with the neighboring museums oddly untouched. Robert offers her one of these, The National Museum of the Worker. However, neither this museum, nor the street it is hidden away on, nor Dora herself, are what they at first appear to be. Set against the backdrop of a nation on the verge of collapse, Dora's search for the truth behind the mystery she's long concealed will unravel a monstrous conspiracy and bring her to the edge of worlds."--

In this entertaining collaboration, Owen King and Mark Jude Poirier team up with illustrator Nancy Ahn to present a wickedly funny graphic novel

In this spectacular New York Times bestselling father/son collaboration that ';barrels along like a freight train' (Publishers Weekly), 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 wanted 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 woman's prison, Sleeping Beauties is a wildly provocative, gloriously dramatic father-son collaboration that feels particularly urgent and relevant today.

Meanwhile, George's mother is about to marry Dr Vic, who besides being possess by an almost royal obliviousness, may even have voted for George W Bush.