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For readers new to Stephen King's epic seven-volume fantasy series, this stand-alone novel serves as a captivating introduction. It unfolds as a story within a story within a story, featuring both the younger and older Roland Deschain, Mid-World's last gunslinger, on his quest for the Dark Tower. For devoted fans, it offers deeper insights into Roland and his ka-tet's journey between leaving the Emerald City and reaching Calla Bryn Sturgis. When a ferocious storm halts their progress along the Path of the Beam, Roland shares not just one, but two strange tales, illuminating his troubled past. In his youth, during a guilt-ridden year after his mother's death, Roland is sent by his father to a ranch to investigate a recent slaughter. There, he finds evidence of the ‘skin-man,’ a shape-shifter, and only one surviving witness: a brave yet terrified boy named Bill Streeter. To calm him, Roland recounts a story from Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother used to read to him, ‘The Wind through the Keyhole.’ He reassures Bill, saying, ‘A person's never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them.’ These stories, in turn, live for us.
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The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole, Stephen King
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2012
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- (In brossura)
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- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Stephen King
- Editore
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Pubblicato
- 2012
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 335
- ISBN10
- 1444731718
- ISBN13
- 9781444731712
- Serie
- La Torre Nera
- Tag
- Narrativa, Fantasy, Avventura, Horror, Letteratura Americana, Far West, Fantasy Eroica, Walter Padick
- Prima pubblicazione
- 2012
- Titolo originale
- The Wind Through the Keyhole
- Valutazione
- 4,05 su 5
- Descrizione
- For readers new to Stephen King's epic seven-volume fantasy series, this stand-alone novel serves as a captivating introduction. It unfolds as a story within a story within a story, featuring both the younger and older Roland Deschain, Mid-World's last gunslinger, on his quest for the Dark Tower. For devoted fans, it offers deeper insights into Roland and his ka-tet's journey between leaving the Emerald City and reaching Calla Bryn Sturgis. When a ferocious storm halts their progress along the Path of the Beam, Roland shares not just one, but two strange tales, illuminating his troubled past. In his youth, during a guilt-ridden year after his mother's death, Roland is sent by his father to a ranch to investigate a recent slaughter. There, he finds evidence of the ‘skin-man,’ a shape-shifter, and only one surviving witness: a brave yet terrified boy named Bill Streeter. To calm him, Roland recounts a story from Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother used to read to him, ‘The Wind through the Keyhole.’ He reassures Bill, saying, ‘A person's never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them.’ These stories, in turn, live for us.