Towerpedia:Gunslinger, The

[CENTER][LEFT][xfloat="left"]http://www.thedarktower.org/images/The%20Gunslinger.jpg[/xfloat][B][SIZE=4]The [/SIZE][SIZE=4]Dark Tower [/SIZE][/B][B][SIZE=4]I[/SIZE][/B][B][SIZE=4]: The Gunslinger [/SIZE][/B]

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[I]"The man in black fled across the desert, and the [autolink]gunslinger[/autolink] followed."[/I]

[COLOR=Olive]Written by Stephen King in 1970, five years before the publication of his first novel, that sentence opens up a world still unknown to many of his readers. It begins a spectacular seven-volume epic fantasy - [I]The Dark Tower [/I]- that is sure to become an American classic.[/COLOR]

Now, preparing the way for the publication of the saga's concluding volumes, King offers a revised and expanded edition of [I]The Gunslinger[/I], the mesmerizing first book of the series. This hardback edition, for which King has written a special introduction and foreword, contains all of the full-color paintings and pen-and-ink drawings created by Michael Whelan for the original limited edition published by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, in 1982.

Eerie, dreamlike, set in a world that is weirdly related to our own, [I]The Gunslinger[/I] introduces Roland Deschain of Gilead, of In-World that was, as he pursues his enigmatic antagonist to the mountains that separate the desert from the Western Sea. Roland is a solitary figure, perhaps accursed, who with a strange single-mindedness traverses an exhausted, almost timeless landscape. The people he encounters are left behind, or worse - left dead. At a way station, however, he meets Jake, a boy from a particular time (1977) and a particular place (New York City), and soon the two are joined -khef, ka and ka-tet. The mountains lie before them. So does the man in black and, somewhere far beyond...the Dark Tower.[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4]
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[I][B]Original artwork by [URL="http://www.michaelwhelan.com/"]Michael Whelan [/URL][/I][/B]

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[CENTER][LEFT][xfloat="left"]http://www.thedarktower.org/images/The%20Gunslinger.jpg[/xfloat][B][SIZE=4]The [/SIZE][SIZE=4]Dark Tower [/SIZE][/B][B][SIZE=4]I[/SIZE][/B][B][SIZE=4]: The Gunslinger [/SIZE][/B]

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[I]"The man in black fled across the desert, and the [autolink]gunslinger[/autolink] followed."[/I]

[COLOR=Olive]Written by Stephen King in 1970, five years before the publication of his first novel, that sentence opens up a world still unknown to many of his readers. It begins a spectacular seven-volume epic fantasy - [I]The Dark Tower [/I]- that is sure to become an American classic.[/COLOR]

Now, preparing the way for the publication of the saga's concluding volumes, King offers a revised and expanded edition of [I]The Gunslinger[/I], the mesmerizing first book of the series. This hardback edition, for which King has written a special introduction and foreword, contains all of the full-color paintings and pen-and-ink drawings created by Michael Whelan for the original limited edition published by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, in 1982.

Eerie, dreamlike, set in a world that is weirdly related to our own, [I]The Gunslinger[/I] introduces Roland Deschain of Gilead, of In-World that was, as he pursues his enigmatic antagonist to the mountains that separate the desert from the Western Sea. Roland is a solitary figure, perhaps accursed, who with a strange single-mindedness traverses an exhausted, almost timeless landscape. The people he encounters are left behind, or worse - left dead. At a way station, however, he meets Jake, a boy from a particular time (1977) and a particular place (New York City), and soon the two are joined -khef, ka and ka-tet. The mountains lie before them. So does the man in black and, somewhere far beyond...the Dark Tower.[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4]
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[I][B]Original artwork by [URL="http://www.michaelwhelan.com/"]Michael Whelan [/URL][/I][/B]

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