shining 2
Jianping Hua
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/25/stephenking
Speaking to an audience of fans in Toronto about his new novel Under
the Dome, King divulged that he'd begun working on a tentative idea
for a follow-up to The Shining – first published in 1977 – last
summer.
Danny, he said, was certain to have been left "with a lifetime's worth
of emotional scars" after his experiences at the Overlook, where his
father was possessed by the hotel, tried to kill him and his mother
and eventually died.
How Danny deals with both his nightmarish experiences and the
clairvoyance, or "shining", which saved him, might make "a damn fine
sequel", King said, according to local Toronto news website the
Torontoist. His vision of the book – tentatively called Doctor Sleep -
sees Danny now aged 40, working at a hospice for the terminally ill in
upstate New York. He is apparently an orderly at the hospice, but his
real work is to help make death a little easier for the dying patients
with his psychic powers – while making a little money on the side by
betting on the horses.