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This heroic fantasy is set in a world of ominous landscape and macabre menace that is a dark mirror of our own. A spellbinding tale of good versus evil, it features one of Stephen King's most powerful creations -- The Gunslinger, a haunting figure who embodies the qualities of the lone hero through the ages from ancient myth to frontier western legend. His pursuit of The Man in Black, his liaison with the sexually ravenous Alice, his friendship with the kid from Earth called Jake, are part of the drama that is both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike, an alchemy of storytelling sorcery.
Complete in itself, THE GUNSLINGER is the first novel in an epic series, THE DARK TOWER.
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The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger
2017-07, Pocket Books
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The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger
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The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
2013, W F Howes Ltd
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The Gunslinger
2013, W F Howes Ltd
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The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
2005, Hodder & Stoughton
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O Pistoleiro - Col. A Torre Negra Vol. I
2004, Objetiva
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2001, Poema Pocket
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The Gunslinger
1989-07, New American Library
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"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."
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The Gunslinger is a dark-fantasy by American author Stephen King. It is the first volume in the Dark Tower series.
The Gunslinger was first published in 1982 as a fix-up novel, joining five short stories that had been published between 1978 and 1981. King substantially revised the novel in 2003; this version has remained in print ever since, with the subtitle RESUMPTION.
The story centers upon Roland Deschain, the last gunslinger, who has been chasing his adversary, "the man in black," for many years. The novel fuses Western fiction with fantasy, science fiction, and horror, following Roland's trek through a vast desert and beyond in search of the man in black. Roland meets several people along his journey, including a boy named Jake Chambers, who travels with him part of the way.
"The Gunslinger" (October 1978)
"The Way Station" (April 1980)
"The Oracle and the Mountains" (February 1981)
"The Slow Mutants" (July 1981)
"The Gunslinger and the Dark Man" (November 1981)
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