The Gunslinger by Stephen King; Michael Whelan (Illustrator)Call Number: PS3561.I483G862003
ISBN: 0670032549
Publication Date: 2003-06-23
Book 1of 7: The Dark Tower (expanded and revised)
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, a quest to find the Dark Tower, a fabled building said to be the nexus of all universes. 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.
In the story, Roland Deschain is a member of a knightly order known as gunslingers and is the last of his line. Roland's world appears to be coming apart. It combines aspects of feudal society with those of the American Old West as well as magic and technological relics.
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