The Gunslinger (Revised Edition): The Dark Tower I

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Eerie dreamlike set in a world that is weirdly related to our own The Gunslinger 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 singlemindedness traverses an exhausted almost timeless landscape. The people he encounters are left behind or worseleft 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 joinedkhef ka and ka-tet. The mountains lie before them. So does the man in black and somewhere far beyond...the Dark Tower.