Insomnia Limited Edition

Stephen King

  • First published 1989
  • English
In the familiar town of Derry, Maine, a place with a dark history, retired widower Ralph Roberts is losing his grip on sleep. Following the death of his wife, he finds himself waking earlier and earlier each night, until the waking world and the world of nightmares begin to blur. What starts as simple, age-related insomnia soon descends into something far more unsettling. Ralph begins to see things invisible to everyone else: vibrant, colorful auras surrounding the people he meets and small, strange men in white coats who appear at the sites of accidents and death. Initially dismissed as hallucinations brought on by sleep deprivation, these visions prove to be glimpses into a different level of reality. Ralph discovers he is an unwilling witness to a cosmic struggle between forces of destiny and chaos. He learns that his insomnia is not a sickness but an awakening, and that beneath the mundane surface of his small town, a battle is raging that will determine the fate of more than just one life. An ordinary man grappling with grief is forced to confront the extraordinary, as his sleepless nights become the key to understanding a terrifying, hidden world.
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This edition
Hodder & Stoughton, 1994
ISBN
9780340632338
Language
English
Original edition Originally published in 1989 · Dutch · Luitingh-Sijthoff

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