Twelve-year-old Jack Sawyer braves the mysterious dangers of the Territories, a surreal parallel world, in his quest--across the United States-for the Talisman, the only hope for his dying mother and for his own survival.
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Twelve-year-old Jack Sawyer braves the mysterious dangers of the Territories, a surreal parallel world, in his quest--across the United States-for the Talisman, the only hope for his dying mother and for his own survival.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Fiction. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Clean and tight and square with sharp corners. Appears unread. Black boards with gold and black lettering on the red spine. The first page has a shadow from a label. The dust jacket has a bit of wear and tear along the edges and a very small crease at the lower corner of the front flap. The jacket is in new mylar.
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Very good in Good jacket. Size: 6x2x9; NOT an ex library book. 645 pages. Dust jacket has 1/2' tears with peeling on edges. Crease on front endflap. Price is not clipped.
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Fair in Fair jacket. 8vo-7¾"-9¾" Tall. Jacket shows edgewear, large closed tear on front, large chip missing from tip. Boards rubbed on edges, chipped at tip. Small stain in upper corner of end pages. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound.
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Clean pages, tight binding, clea. Illustrated dust jacket over clo. Size: 6x2x9; Original price to flap $18.95clean pages, tight binding, clean boards, original dust jacket with curl and to small tears to front, Illustrated dust jacket over cloth boards.
This book is long and does start off a bit slow. Don't let that scare you away from a wonderful coming of age book.
The main character is a 12 year old boy that must work through his pain of losing his father and having to watch his mother waste away due to cancer.
Take all of this and then add that his father's business partner is causing the pain.
Take the time to learn the whole story, you won't be sorry.
ao24
Dec 3, 2010
Good, a little srange, odd in a good way
After a slow start the book is a roller coaster, when you read "Dark House" everything comes together.
witchkitty
Oct 13, 2010
exciting, imaginative!
I have actually gone thru several paperback copies of this book, worn them right out! I read it the first time many years ago and its the one book that made me a Stephen King fan. It is engaging, exciting, hopeful, tearful at times, but more than that, its imaginations gone wild! The main theme is a young boy, on a journey to save is mother's life, finding his strength, bravery, and most of all, that our world is not what he ever thought. There are more worlds than ever imagined!
Teal99
Nov 18, 2009
Awful Book By King
I will start by saying that I have enjoyed many Stephen King novels, including the Dark Tower series that seems to be mentioned in unison with this book. However, this is one of the worst books I have read to date, by any author. Nearly nothing happens in the first 200 pages, or at least not anything that could not have been condensed (minus excessive, boring explanation) into 50 pages or less. Jack is an extremely boring lead character with little depth to him. The characters around him give him his only depth. Considering Jack is alone for the most part makes the book unbearably slow. The individual events that take place are told in an odd fashion, such as you do not know whether he is referring to the present or past of the scenario in any one passage. Perhaps if the authors had condensed the book to about 300 pages the book would have been more readable, as is it is long-winded drivel. Certainly, in my opinion, the worst Stephen King book.
ssimon127
May 6, 2009
Another Great book.
If you want an original, throught provoking, spooky, and adventurous book, then read this one. First off when two Masters writers get together to write a story you know It'll be good. This book I would consider a horror/fantasy! Read this book.