The gunslinger / Stephen King.
Material type: TextLanguage: English, English Series: King, Stephen, Dark tower ; bk. 1.Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2016Copyright date: ©2003Edition: First Scribner trade hardcover editionDescription: xxv, 253 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781501143519 (softcover)
- 1501143514 (softcover)
- 9781501182105 (hardcover)
- 1501182102 (hardcover)
- 9780606391627
- 0606391622
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Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | King Stephen | Added to Claims Returned Report 08/2023 | DT 1 | Checked out | 05/30/2024 | 33111008768844 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"An impressive work of mythic magnitude that may turn out to be Stephen King's greatest literary achievement" ( The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ), The Gunslinger is the first volume in the epic Dark Tower Series.
A #1 national bestseller, The Gunslinger introduces readers to one of Stephen King's most powerful creations, Roland of Gilead: The Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner on a spellbinding journey into good and evil. In his desolate world, which mirrors our own in frightening ways, Roland tracks The Man in Black, encounters an enticing woman named Alice, and begins a friendship with the boy from New York named Jake.
Inspired in part by the Robert Browning narrative poem, "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came," The Gunslinger is "a compelling whirlpool of a story that draws one irretrievable to its center" ( Milwaukee Sentinel ). It is "brilliant and fresh...and will leave you panting for more" ( Booklist ).
The gunslinger -- The way station -- The oracle and the mountains -- The slow mutants -- The gunslinger and the man in black.
In The Gunslinger, King introduces Roland Deschain of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting, solitary figure at first, on a mysterious quest through a desolate world that eerily mirrors our own. Pursuing the man in black, an evil being who can bring the dead back to life, Roland is a good man who seems to leave nothing but death in his wake.