Stephen King, Peter Straub: Talisman/the 36fl (Paperback, 1985, Berkley)
Paperback
Published Nov. 1, 1985 by Berkley.
Twelve-year-old Jack Sawyer embarks on an epic quest--a walk from the seacoast of New Hampshire to the California coast--to find the talisman that will save his dying mother's life. Jack's journey takes him into the Territories, a parallel medieval universe, where most people from his own universe have analogs called "twinners." The queen of the Territories, Jack's mother's twinner, is also dying.
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Followed by: [Black House][2]
[1]: www.stephenking.com/library/novel/talisman_the.html [2]: openlibrary.org/works/OL15119768W
Over the last couple of years I've been reading King novels that I originally read when I was a kid. I had really fond memories of The Talisman but it did not hold up. It's long, and while there are parts that are great, it's a relic of the 80s and the age really shows.
