The Talisman - Hardcover

King, Stephen; Straub, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670691992 ISBN 13: 9780670691999

Publisher: Viking Adult, 1984

Twelve-year-old Jack Sawyer braves the mysterious dangers of the Territories, a surreal parallel world, in his quest--across the United States-for the Talisman, the only hope for his dying mother and for his own survival

From the Inside Flap:

On a brisk autumn day, a thirteen-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. . . .

From the Back Cover:

“EXTRAORDINARY . . . MAKES YOUR HAIR STAND ON END.”
–The Washington Post

“A CLASSIC . . . RARE AND DAZZLING . . . A JOURNEY TO RIVAL THE GREATEST ADVENTURE STORIES EVER TOLD.”
–New York Daily News

• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0670691992
• ISBN 13: 9780670691999
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 672