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The Talisman / Stephen King, Peter Straub.

King, Stephen, 1947- (Author). Straub, Peter, 1943- (Added Author).

Summary:

On a brisk autumn day, a twelve-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 America--and into another realm. You are about to take a journey... a terrifying trip across America where young Jack Sawyer is searching for the Talisman, the only thing that can save his dying mother. His quest takes him into the menacing Territories where violence, surprise and the titanic struggle between good and evil reach across a mythic landscape... a journey into the dark heart of horror.

Record details

ISBN: 0670691992
ISBN: 9780670691999
ISBN: 9781451697216
ISBN: 145169721X
ISBN: 0345444884
ISBN: 9780345444882
ISBN: 0425105334
ISBN: 9780425105337
ISBN: 9780375507779
ISBN: 0375507779
Physical Description: x, 644 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York : Viking, 1984.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Jack Lights Out -- The Alhambra Inn and Gardens -- The Funnel Opens -- Speedy Parker -- Jack Goes Over -- Jack and Lily -- Interlude: Sloat in This World (I) -- The Road of Trials -- The Queen's Pavillion -- Farren -- The Oatley Tunnel -- Jack in the Pitcher Plant -- Elroy -- The Death of Jerry Bledsoe -- Jack Goes to the Market -- The Men in the Sky -- Buddy Parkins -- Snowball Sings -- Wolf -- Interlude: Sloat in This World (II) -- Wolf and the Herd -- Wolf Goes to the Movies -- Jack in the Box -- A Collision of Worlds -- Taken by the Law -- The Sunlight Home -- The Sermon -- Ferd Janklow -- Jack Names the Planets -- Jack and Wolf Go to Hell -- Wolf in the Box -- Jack Lights Out Again -- Jack's Dream -- Richard at Thayer -- Thayer Gets Weird -- Thayer Goes to Hell -- "Send Out Your Passenger!" -- Richard in the Dark -- Interlude: Sloat in This World / Orris in the Territories (III) -- The Talisman -- Anders -- Interlude: Sloat in This World (IV) -- The Blasted Lands -- Jack and Richard Go to War -- Richard Remembers -- The End of the Road -- Point Venuti -- Speedy on the Beach -- Interlude: Sloat in This World (V) -- The Black Hotel -- Jack and the Talisman -- News from Everywhere -- The Earthquake -- In Which Many Things Are Resolved on the Beach -- Another Journey -- Journey's End.