The King, Stephen. creator text nhu Hampton Falls, NH Donald M. Grant, Publisher 2003 1st ed. monographic eng

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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. . . . Stephen King, Peter Straub. Quests (Expeditions) -- Fiction Mothers and sons -- Fiction Talismans -- Fiction PS 3561.I483 .K52 1984 FIC K58t 1984 1880418533 9780670691999 2003104356 DLC 030321 20160308153721.0 13134178