King, Stephen, 1947-
The gunslinger / by Stephen King ; illustrated by Michael Whelan. - Plume rev. ed. - New York : Plume, c2003. - xxv, 231 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm. - The dark tower 1. .
"Revised and expanded throughout. With a new introduction and foreword by the author"--Cover.
Eerie, dreamlike, set in a world that is weirdly related to our own, The Gunslinger introduces Roland Deschain of Gilead, of In-World that was, as he pursues his enigmatic antagonist to the mountains that separate the desert from the Western Sea. Roland is a solitary figure, perhaps accursed, who with a strange singlemindedness traverses an exhausted, almost timeless landscape. The people he encounters are left behind, or worse-left dead. At a way station, however, he meets Jake, a boy from a particular time (1977) and a particular place (New York City_, and soon the two are joined-khef, ka, and ka-tet. The mountains lie before them. So does the man in black and, somewhere far beyond...the Dark Tower.
0452284694 (pbk.) $15.95
2003042279
Roland (Fictitious character : King)--Fiction.
Horror stories.
Fantasy stories.
The gunslinger / by Stephen King ; illustrated by Michael Whelan. - Plume rev. ed. - New York : Plume, c2003. - xxv, 231 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm. - The dark tower 1. .
"Revised and expanded throughout. With a new introduction and foreword by the author"--Cover.
Eerie, dreamlike, set in a world that is weirdly related to our own, The Gunslinger introduces Roland Deschain of Gilead, of In-World that was, as he pursues his enigmatic antagonist to the mountains that separate the desert from the Western Sea. Roland is a solitary figure, perhaps accursed, who with a strange singlemindedness traverses an exhausted, almost timeless landscape. The people he encounters are left behind, or worse-left dead. At a way station, however, he meets Jake, a boy from a particular time (1977) and a particular place (New York City_, and soon the two are joined-khef, ka, and ka-tet. The mountains lie before them. So does the man in black and, somewhere far beyond...the Dark Tower.
0452284694 (pbk.) $15.95
2003042279
Roland (Fictitious character : King)--Fiction.
Horror stories.
Fantasy stories.