UID:
kobvindex_ZLB34022461
ISBN:
9781501141416
Serie:
The Dark Tower
Inhalt:
" Now a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba The third volume in the #1 nationally bestselling Dark Tower Series, involving the enigmatic Roland (the last gunfighter) and his ongoing quest for the Dark Tower, is &ldquo,tephen King at his best&rdquo,( School Library Journal ). Several months have passed since The Drawing of the Three , and in The Waste Lands , Roland’, two new tet -mates have become trained gunslingers. Eddie Dean has given up heroin, and Odetta’, two selves have joined, becoming the stronger and more balanced personality of Susannah Dean. But Roland altered ka by saving the life of Jake Chambers, a boy who—,n Roland’, world—,as already died. Now Roland and Jake exist in different worlds, but they are joined by the same madness: the paradox of double memories. Roland, Susannah, and Eddie must draw Jake into Mid-World and then follow the Path of the Beam all the way to the Dark Tower. There are new evils…,ew dangers to threaten Roland’, little band in the devastated city of Lud and the surrounding wastelands, as well as horrific confrontations with Blaine the Mono, the piratical Gasher, and the frightening Tick-Tock Man. The Dark Tower Series continues to show Stephen King as a master of his craft. What lands, what peoples has he visited that are so unreachable to us except in the pages of his incredible books? Now Roland’, strange odyssey continues. The Waste Lands follows The Gunslinger and The Drawing of the Three as the third volume in what may be the most extraordinary and imaginative cycle of tales in the English language."
Inhalt:
Rezension(1): "Stephen King is the author of more than ,ifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. ,is recent work includes ,i〉Sleeping Beauties ,co-written with his son Owen King), ,i〉End of Watch , the short story collection ,i〉The Bazaar of Bad Dreams , ,i〉Finders ,eepers , ,i〉Mr. Mercedes ,an Edgar Award winner ,or Best Novel and now an AT&, Audience Network original television series), ,i〉Doctor Sleep , and ,i〉Under ,he Dome . His novel ,i〉11/22/63 &mdash, recent Hulu original television series event&mdash,as named a ,op ten book of 2011 by ,i〉The ,ew York Times ,ook Review ,nd won the ,os Angeles Times ,ook Prize for Mystery/Thriller as well as the ,est Hardcover Book Award from the International ,hriller Writers. His epic works ,i〉The Dark Tower ,nd ,i〉It ,re the basis for ,ajor motion pictures. He is the recipient ,f the 2014 National Medal of Arts and the ,003 National Book Foundation Medal for ,istinguished Contribution to American Letters. ,e lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, ,ovelist Tabitha King."
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
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