Introduction - Argument - Prologue: Sailor - Prisoner: Door - Eddie Dean - Contact and landing - Tower - Showdown and shoot-out - Shuffle - Lady of shadows: Detta and Odetta - Ringing the changes - Odetta on the other side - Detta on the other side - Reshuffle - Pusher: Bitter medicine - Honeypot - Roland takes his medicine - Drawing - Final shuffle - AfterwordĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 07:08:59 Associated-names Hale, Phil Boxid IA1914805 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Has Roland found new companions to form the ka-tet of his quest? Or has he unleashed something else entirely? And in 1977, he encounters Jack Mort, Death, and a pusher responsible for cruelties beyond imagining. In 1964, he meets Odetta Holmes, the Lady of Shadows, and a young African-American heiress who lost her lower legs in a subway accident and gained a second personality that rages within her. In 1987, he finds Eddie Dean, The Prisoner, a heroin addict. Through these doors, Roland must "draw" three figures crucial to his quest for the Dark Tower. After his confrontation with the man in black at the end of The Gunslinger, Roland awakes to find three doors on the beach of Mid-World's Western Search leading to New York City but at three different moments in time.
With these last three volumes finally on the horizon, readers, countless King readers who have yet to delve into The Dark Tower and a multitude of new and old fantasy fans, can now look forward to reading the series straight through to its stunning conclusion. Song of Susannah, Book VI, and The Dark Tower, Book VII, will follow under the same arrangement in 2004. Grant, with distribution and major promotion provided by Scribner. In November 2003, the fifth installment, Wolves of the Calla, will be published under the imprint of Donald M.
Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters, The Dark Tower series is King's most visionary feat of storytelling, a magical mix of science fiction, fantasy, and horror that may well be his crowning achievement.
Xvii, 406 pages, 10 unnumbered leaves of plates : 24 cmīeginning with a short story appearing in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1978, the publication of Stephen King's epic work of fantasy-what he considers to be a single long novel and his magnum opus has spanned a quarter of a century.
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