num_pages: 224
description: In the first book of this series, Stephen King introduces readers to one of his most enigmatic heroes, Roland of Gilead, The Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner on a spellbinding journey into good and evil. In his desolate world, which frighteningly mirrors our own, Roland pursues The Man in Black, encounters an alluring woman named Alice and begins a friendship with the Kid from Earth called Jake. Both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike, The Gunslinger leaves readers eagerly awaiting the next chapter.Back cover: This heroic fantasy is set in a world of ominous landscape and macabre menace that is a dark mirror of our own. A spellbinding tale of good versus evil, it features one of Stephen King's most powerful creations—The Gunslinger, a haunting figure who embodies the qualities of the lone hero through the ages from ancient myth to frontier western legend. His pursuit of The Man in Black, his liaison with the sexually ravenous Alice, his friendship with the kid from Earth called Jake, are part of a drama that is both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike, an alchemy of storytelling sorcery.
language: English
title: The Gunslinger
titlecomplete: The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1)
characters: Roland Deschain, Jake Chambers
genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Thriller, Horror, Post Apocalyptic, Fiction, Westerns, Adventure, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 593666
series: The Dark Tower
publisher: Severn House Publishers