The talisman / Stephen King, Peter Straub.
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. 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 0670691992
- ISBN: 9781668035061
- ISBN: 0345444884
- Physical Description: x, 644 pages ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Viking : 1984.
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- General Note:
- Publisher and paging may vary.
- With Note:
- MARCIVE 03/01/06
- Target Audience Note:
- 880L Lexile
- Study Program Information Note:
- Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.2 42 20394.
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| Old Fort Branch Library | FIC KIN (Text) | 37810434309885 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 08/12/2026 |
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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. 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.
