The talisman
On a brisk autumn day, a thirteen-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: his father is gone, his mother is dying, and the world no longer makes sense. But for Jack every...
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New York :
Ballantine Books,
2001, ©1984.
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Table of Contents:
- Jack lights out
- The Alhambra Inn and Gardens
- The funnel opens
- Speedy Parker
- Jack goes over
- Jack and Lilly
- Interlude : Sloat in this world (I)
- The road of trials
- The Queen's pavillion
- Farren
- The Oatley Tunnel
- Jack in the pitcher plant
- Elroy
- The death of Jerry Bledsoe
- Jack goes on the market
- The men in the sky
- Buddy Parkins
- Snowball sings
- Wolf
- Interlude : Sloat in this world (II)
- Wolf and the herd
- Wolf goes to the movies
- Jack in the box
- A collision of worlds
- Taken by the law
- The Sunlight Home
- The sermon
- Ferd Janklow
- Jack names the planets
- Jack and Wolf go to Hell
- Wolf in the box
- Jack lights out again
- Jack's dream
- Richard at Thayer
- Thayer gets weird
- Thayer goes to Hell
- "Send out your passenger!"
- Richard in the dark
- Sloat in this world/Orris in the Territories (III)
- Anders
- Interlude : Sloat in this world (IV)
- The Blasted Lands
- Jack and Richard go to war
- Richard remembers
- The end of the road
- Point Venuti
- Speedy on the beach
- Interlude : Sloat in this world (V)
- The Black Hotel
- Jack and the Talisman
- News from everywhere
- The earthquake
- In which many things are resolved on the beach
- Another journey
- Journey's end.
