01781nam a22003495a 4500 13134178 LC 20160308153721.0 030321s2003 nhu 000 0 eng 2003104356 1880418533 9780670691999 (DLC) 2003104356 DLC DLC pcc PS 3561.I483 .K52 1984 FIC K58t 1984 King, Stephen. 19035 The talisman / Stephen King, Peter Straub. 1st ed. Hampton Falls, NH : Donald M. Grant, Publisher, 2003. 0306 644 p. : 24 cm. On 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. . . . Quests (Expeditions) -- Fiction. Mothers and sons -- Fiction. Talismans -- Fiction. 0 ibc orignew 2 epcn 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 11588 11588 0 0 lcc 0 LUX LUX FIC 2013-09-17 2 2 PS 3561.I483 .K52 1984 7210 2020-02-28 00:00:00 2020-02-18 1 2013-09-17 BK