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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0848807804
ISBN-13: 9780848807801
Dec 1976
Publisher: New Amer Library
The Dark Tower Series
Language: English |
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Synopsis
In an alternate world that darkly mirrors our own, the Gunslinger pursues The Man in Black in a harrowing struggle between good and evil., The an omnibus of the first three novels in author King's huge Dark Tower series.
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Industry Reviews
"I have written enough novels and stories to fill a solar system of the imagination, but Roland's story is my Jupiter," declares the Jove of popular novelists in his afterword to this bountiful fourth volume (of a projected seven) in the epic tale of Roland the Gunslinger. King began writing this alternate-world western saga in 1970, four years before Carrie saw print, but the first volume came out only in 1976 and subsequent volumes in 1989 and 1991. Each appeared in a limited edition hardcover from Grant, then in Plume trade paperbacks that sold wildly, as the Plume edition (see below) of this novel should for while this isn't King at his most accomplished, it is King at his most ebullient. He's at his best here as a resourceful explorer of humanity's shadow side, as a storyteller who can set pages on fire but also, at times, at his worst as a purveyor of tasteless, pompous near-juvenilia. A recap of the earlier volumes guides readers into this entry, the longest yet, which opens with Roland and his band held captive on an impossibly fast train run by a homicidal computer. Once that menace is dealt with (in a way that invites adults to snigger like adolescents), Roland regales his fellows with the novel's core story, an acutely tragic tale of youthful love involving a witch, a diabolical crystal ball, a tear between worlds, betrayal, murder and dazzling action. The narrative concludes with a visit to a nightmarish, latter-day Oz. Mixing horror, fantasy both high and low, western icons and pop references, the novel lacks structural rigor and sometimes even sense, but it sweeps readers up in such swells of passion that few may notice, or care. Illustrated. 40,000-copy limited edition. (Aug.) FYI: The Plume edition, $17.95, 0-452-27917-8, due out in November 1997, will have a first printing of 1.5 million.
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