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. He was twelve years old and tall for his age.
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(1984)
The Talisman
First Ballantine Books edition (7)
by Stephen King and Peter Straub
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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. . . .
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Fantastique, Romans, Talismans, Mothers and sons, Fiction, Quests (Expeditions), Boys, Fantasy, Horror, Fiction, horror, Mothers and sons, fiction, Fiction, fantasy, general, Fantasy fiction, Fictional WorksPeople
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The Talisman
2001 08, Ballantine Books
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Le talisman: des Territoires
1986 April, R. Laffont
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The Talisman
1985 November, Berkley Books, Berkley
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1985-11, Berkley Books
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The Talisman
1984, Viking, G. P. Putnam & Sons
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"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."
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The Talisman is a 1984 fantasy novel by American writers Stephen King and Peter Straub. The Talisman was nominated for both the Locus and World Fantasy Awards in 1985. King and Straub followed up with a sequel, Black House (2001).
Followed by: Black House
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