The Gunslinger

By Stephen King

Book #1 in the The Dark Tower series

A lone gunslinger pursues a mysterious figure across a desolate world, unraveling a dark quest.

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231 pages· 62,489 words

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Bookroo's summary

In a world eerily like our own, Roland, the last gunslinger, embarks on a perilous quest to find the elusive Man in Black. As he traverses a haunting landscape, he encounters Alice, a woman with secrets, and Jake, a boy from another world. With each step, Roland is drawn deeper into a battle between good and evil, where the stakes are nothing less than the fate of his world. Will Roland's relentless pursuit lead to salvation or destruction? Discover the beginning of an epic journey that will leave you breathless.

From the publisher

“An impressive work of mythic magnitude that may turn out to be Stephen King’s greatest literary achievement” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution), The Gunslinger is the first volume in the epic Dark Tower Series. A #1 national bestseller, The Gunslinger introduces readers to one of Stephen King’s most powerful creations, Roland of Gilead: The Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner on a spellbinding journey into good and evil. In his desolate world, which mirrors our own in frightening ways, Roland tracks The Man in Black, encounters an enticing woman named Alice, and begins a friendship with the boy from New York named Jake. Inspired in part by the Robert Browning narrative poem, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came,” The Gunslinger is “a compelling whirlpool of a story that draws one irretrievable to its center” (Milwaukee Sentinel). It is “brilliant and fresh…and will leave you panting for more” (Booklist).

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