The Gunslinger

Author: Stephen King

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  • : June 2017
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Description

The Dark Tower is soon to be a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba, due in cinemas July 28, 2017.
'The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed'. The iconic opening line of Stephen King's groundbreaking series, The Dark Tower, introduces one of his most enigmatic and powerful heroes: Roland of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger.
Roland is a haunting figure, a loner, on a spellbinding journey toward the mysterious Dark Tower, in a desolate world which frighteningly echoes our own.
On his quest, Roland begins a friendship with a kid from New York named Jake, encounters an alluring woman and faces an agonising choice between damnation and salvation as he pursues the Man in Black.
And the Tower is closer...
THE GUNSLINGER is the first volume in Stephen King's epic Dark Tower series.
THE DARK TOWER SERIES:THE DARK TOWER I: THE GUNSLINGERTHE DARK TOWER II: THE DRAWING OF THE THREETHE DARK TOWER III: THE WASTE LANDSTHE DARK TOWER IV: WIZARD AND GLASSTHE DARK TOWER V: WOLVES OF THE CALLATHE DARK TOWER VI: SONG OF SUSANNAHTHE DARK TOWER VII: THE DARK TOWERTHE WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE: A DARK TOWER NOVEL

Author description

'At the age of 19 Stephen decided he would like to write an epic similar to The Lord of the Rings. The 'spaghetti Westerns' of that time [specifically The Good, the Bad and the Ugly] and a poem written by Robert Browning, 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came', became the inspiration for his magnum opus. The series written and published separately over a period of 22 years consists of eight books, including The Wind Through the Keyhole, and the short story, 'The Little Sisters of Eluria' published in his collection, EVERYTHING'S EVENTUAL.' From the author's website.