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The Dark Tower: Wizard and Glass Bk. IV Book

Wizard and Glass, the fourth episode in King's white-hot Dark Tower series, is a sci-fi/fantasy novel that contains a post-apocalyptic Western love story twice as long. It begins with the series' star, world-weary Roland, and his world-hopping posse (an ex-junkie, a child, a plucky woman in a wheelchair, and a talking dog-like pet named Oy the Bumbler) trapped aboard a runaway train. The train is a psychotic multiple personality that intends to commit suicide with them at 800 m.p.h.--unless Roland and pals can outwit it in a riddling contest. It's a great race, for the mind and pulse. Films should be this good. Then comes a 567- page flashback about Roland at age 14. It's a well-marbled but meaty tale. Roland and two teenage friends must rescue his first love from the dirty old drooling mayor of a post-apocalyptic cowboy town, thwart a civil war by blowing up oil tanks, and seize an all-seeing crystal ball from Rhea, a vampire witch. The love scenes are startlingly prominent and earthier than most romance novels (they kiss until blood trickles from her lip). After an epic battle ending in a box canyon to end all box canyons, we're back with grizzled, grown-up Roland and the train-wreck survivors in a parallel world: Kansas in 1986, after a plague. The finale is a weird fantasy takeoff on The Wizard of Oz Some readers will feel that the latest novel in King's most ambitious series has too many pages--almost 800--but few will deny it's a page-turner. Read More

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    Paperback. Pub Date :2012-02-16 Pages: 896 Language: English Publisher: Hodder Stoughton In the fourth powerful novel in Stephen Kings bestselling fantasy quest. The Dark Tower beckons Roland. the Last Gunslinger. and the four companions he has gathered along the road.And. having narrowly escaped one world. they set out on a terrifying journey across the scarred urban wasteland to brave a new world where hidden dangers lie at every junction: a malevolent computer-run monorail hurtling towards self-destruction. Rolands relentlessly cunning old enemy. and the temptation of the wizards diabolical glass ball. a powerful force in Rolands first love affair. A tale of long-ago love and adventure involving a beautiful and quixotic woman named Susan Delgado.And the Tower is closer ...

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    In the fourth powerful novel in Stephen King's bestselling fantasy quest The Dark Tower beckons Roland the Last Gunslinger and the four companions he has gathered along the road.And having narrowly escaped one world they set out on a terrifying journey across the scarred urban wasteland to brave a new world where hidden dangers lie at every junction: a malevolent computer-run monorail hurtling towards self-destruction Roland's relentlessly cunning old enemy and the temptation of the wizard's diabolical glass ball a powerful force in Roland's first love affair. A tale of long-ago love and adventure involving a beautiful and quixotic woman named Susan Delgado.And the Tower is closer...

  • Foyles

    In the fourth novel in Stephen King's bestselling fantasy quest, the Dark Tower beckons Roland, the Last Gunslinger, and the four companions he has gathered along the road.In a terrifying journey where hidden dangers lurk at every junction, the pilgrims find themselves stranded in an alternate version of Topeka, Kansas, that has been ravaged by a superflu virus.While following the deserted highway toward a distant glass palace, Roland recounts his tragic story about a seaside town called Hambry, where he fell in love with a girl named Susan Delgado and where he and his old tet-mates Alain and Cuthbert battled the forces of an evil harrier who ignited Mid-World's final war.

  • Blackwell

    Hodder are reissuing and rejacketting all seven volumes in Stephen King's epic, fantasy series The Dark Tower in anticipation of the brand new Dark Tower novel, THE WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE, coming in April 2012. In the fourth powerful novel in...

  • BookDepository

    The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass : Paperback : HODDER & STOUGHTON : 9781444723472 : 1444723472 : 16 Feb 2012 : Stephen King's epic fantasy series, The Dark Tower, is now a major motion picture starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey.

  • 1444723472
  • 9781444723472
  • Stephen King
  • 16 February 2012
  • Hodder Paperbacks
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 896
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