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  • This is a book I try to read at least every 3 to 4 years

    

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• ― Hunter Rose said on Sep 16, 2008 about the Mass Market Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • One of my all time favorites! Also, possibly the early seeds of the Gunslinger series were planted here, for those who enjoy that sort of thing...

    

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The Talisman, MP3-CD Edition is for use only with audio devices that are compatable with MP3-encoded CDs.

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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