On September 15th, 1981,
a boy named Jack Sawyer stood where the water
and land come together, hands in the pockets of
his jeans, looking out at the steady Atlantic.
On a brisk autumn day,
a twelve-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray
Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean
resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer
here: his father is gone, his mother is dying, and the world
no longer makes sense. But for Jack everything is about to
change. For he has been chosen to make a journey back across
America--and into another realm.
One of the most influential and heralded works of fantasy
ever written, The Talisman is an extraordinary novel of
loyalty, awakening, terror, and mystery. Jack Sawyer, on a
desperate quest to save his mother's life, must search for a
prize across an epic landscape of innocents and monsters, of
incredible dangers and even more incredible truths. The
prize is essential, but the journey means even more. Let the
quest begin. . . .
New York Daily News
A Classic . . . rare and dazzling.
Washington Post
Extraordinary . . . Makes your hair stand on end.
New York Daily News
A Classic . . . rare and dazzling.
Library Journal
The first (1984) collaboration between horror/fantasy
writers King and Straub, this book has been reissued in
multiple formats to coincide with the publication of its
sequel, Black House. In The Talisman, 12-year-old Jack
Sawyer takes on a quest in this and a parallel world, the
"Territories," to acquire a mystical talisman that will save
the life of his dying mother and her "twinner," the Queen of
the Territories. Jack "flips" back and forth between worlds
during his journey, finding his way through and past
representatives of good and evil in both. Award-winning
reader Frank Muller continues his long string of superlative
performances. This program will generate lots of demand a
must for current fiction collections. Also available in the
newer, highly compressed MP3-CD format, which requires a CD
player that is MP3-compatible or a computer with CD-ROM
drive and MP3 player software loaded. Kristen L. Smith,
Loras Coll. Lib., Dubuque, IA Copyright 2002 Cahners
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