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Simon & Schuster Audio, September 2001
Unabridged Audio Download
ISBN-10: 0743520173
ISBN-13: 9780743520171
Awards and Nominations
- Audie Award Winner
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 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 every 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....
Hear an Excerpt from the Audiobook
St. Petersburg Times, November 20, 2009
...Stephen King has written of ghosts and vampires, revenants and demons and all manner of supernatural terrors. What does he find scarier, the extrahuman monsters or the human ones? "The human ...
Examiner.com, March 25, 2009
...In 1984, fellow authors Stephen King and Peter Straub collaborated to create the fantasy novel The Talisman. It was a simple, albeit lengthy, story about a boy trying to save his dying mother. In his ...
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