01611nam a22002895a 450000100090000000300030000900500170001200800410002901000170007002000150008702000180010203500220012004000130014204200080015505000280016308200200019110000190021124500480023025000120027826000600029026300090035030000210035952008450038065000370122565000330126265000260129513134178LC20160308153721.0030321s2003    nhu           000 0 eng    a  2003104356  a1880418533  a9780670691999  a(DLC)  2003104356  aDLCcDLC  apcc  aPS 3561.I483b.K52 1984  aFIC K58t b19841 aKing, Stephen.14aThe talisman /cStephen King, Peter Straub.  a1st ed.  aHampton Falls, NH :bDonald M. Grant, Publisher,c2003.  a0306  a644 p. :c24 cm.  aOn a brisk autumn day, a thirteen-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: his father is gone, his mother is dying, and the world no longer makes sense. But for Jack everything is about to change. For he has been chosen to make a journey back across Americaand into another realm. One of the most influential and heralded works of fantasy ever written, The Talisman is an extraordinary novel of loyalty, awakening, terror, and mystery. Jack Sawyer, on a desperate quest to save his mother's life, must search for a prize across an epic landscape of innocents and monsters, of incredible dangers and even more incredible truths. The prize is essential, but the journey means even more. Let the quest begin. . . .  aQuests (Expeditions) -- Fiction.  aMothers and sons -- Fiction.  aTalismans -- Fiction.