Originally published in 1987
as a Limited Edition from
Donald M. Grant Publisher
3/89 Trade Paperback Plume
1/90 Mass Market Paperback, Signet
6/03 Hardcover Reissue, Viking
6/03 Trade Paperback Reissue, Plume
6/03 Audio Book Reissue, Penguin
9/03 Mass Market Paperback Reissue, Signet
The Drawing of the Three
From The Flap:
The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three is the second volume
in Stephen King's remarkable cycle of the Dark Tower, inspired
in part by the Robert Browning narrative poem. The first volume,
The Dark Tower, The Gunslinger, relates how Roland, the last
gunslinger in a world that has "moved on," pursues and
eventually catches up with the sorcerer known as the man in
black. It is a tale of science-fantasy that is unlike any tale
that Stephen King has ever written. The second installment on
the long and difficult path to the Dark Tower commences less
than seven hours later. The man in black is dead, and The Dark
Tower II: The Drawing of the Three picks up the thread of
Roland's odyssey upon a deserted beach of the Western Sea in
that strange other-world that is so like--and yet so unlike--our
own. Before he can find a doorway to sanctuary in our world, the
gunslinger is savagely torn by weird creatures out of that
meancing sea. Stephen King himself writes of the DarkTower
cycle: "This work seems to be my own Tower, you know: these
people haunt me, Roland most of all. Do I really know what the
Tower is?. . .Yes. . .and no. All I know is that the tale has
called to me again and again over a period of seventeen years."
For which the reading public is ecstatic! With ten full color
illustrations and designs by the brilliant artist, Phil Hale.
Synopsis:
Part II of an epic saga. Roland, the last gunslinger, encounters
three mysterious doorways on the beach. Each one enters into a
different person living in New York. Through these doorways,
Roland draws the companions who will assist him on his quest to
save the Dark Tower.
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