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040			_aPINCKNEY COMM. SCHOOLS - 9/12
010			_a 2003042279
020			_a0452284694 (pbk.) _c$15.95
100			_aKing, Stephen, _d1947-
245	1	4	_aThe gunslinger / _cby Stephen King ; illustrated by Michael Whelan.
250			_aPlume rev. ed.
260	0		_aNew York : _bPlume, _cc2003.
300			_axxv, 231 p., [6] leaves of plates : _bill. (some col.) ; _c23 cm.
440		4	_aThe dark tower _v1.
500			_a"Revised and expanded throughout. With a new introduction and foreword by the author"--Cover.
520			_aEerie, 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.
600			_aRoland (Fictitious character : King) _xFiction.
655			_aHorror stories.
655			_aFantasy stories.
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999			_c49646 _d49646