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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
ISBN-100345444884
ISBN-139780345444882
eBay Product ID (ePID)1789702
Product Key Features
Book TitleTalisman
Number of Pages768 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicFantasy / General, Horror, Family Life
Publication Year2001
GenreFiction
AuthorPeter Straub, Stephen King
FormatMass Market
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight13.1 Oz
Item Length6.8 in
Item Width4.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"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
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisOn 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 Americaand 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 . . . .