The Talisman
Edition: First Ballantine Books edition (7)
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2001-08
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 768
ISBN-13: 9780345444882
Copyright date: 2001
Subjects: Horror - General; Fiction; Fiction - Horror; Fiction / Horror
First sentence: 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.
Description: 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, <i>The Talisman </i>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. <i>Let the quest begin</i>. . . .
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