The Talisman
Subtitle: a novel
By: Stephen King, Peter Straub.
Contributors: Straub, Peter, 1943-
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 652
ISBN-13: 9780375507779
Copyright date: 1984
Subjects: Quests (Expeditions) -- Fiction; Mothers and sons -- Fiction; Talismans -- Fiction; Boys -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: On a brisk autumn day, a twelve-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. . . . (publisher description)