When was the gunslinger first published

L'unico indizio sull'epoca in cui avvengono i fatti lo si ottiene praticamente alla fine:. Nonostante ci sono alcuni dettagli che mi sfuggono, mi aspetto molto da questa saga. Per ora mi fido delle recensioni positive dei prossimi volumi. Mi fido delle recensioni positive della serie "La Torre Nera" nella sua interezza.

Want to Read. Buy on Amazon. Rate this book. In the first book of this brilliant series, Stephen King introduces readers to one of his most enigmatic heroes, Roland of Gilead, The Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner on a spellbinding journey into good and evil. In his desolate world, which frighteningly mirrors our own, Roland pursues The Man in Black, encounters an alluring woman named Alice, and begins a friendship with the Kid from Earth called Jake.

Both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike, The Gunslinger leaves readers eagerly awaiting the next chapter. Fantasy Fiction Horror Science Fiction More Details. Stephen King 1, books k followers. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother.

Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut.

When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support.

After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged. He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. He came to support the anti-war movement on the Orono campus, arriving at his stance from a conservative view that the war in Vietnam was unconstitutional. He graduated in , with a B. A draft board examination immediately post-graduation found him 4-F on grounds of high blood pressure, limited vision, flat feet, and punctured eardrums.

He met Tabitha Spruce in the stacks of the Fogler Library at the University, where they both worked as students; they married in January of As Stephen was unable to find placement as a teacher immediately, the Kings lived on his earnings as a laborer at an industrial laundry, and her student loan and savings, with an occasional boost from a short story sale to men's magazines.

Throughout the early years of his marriage, he continued to sell stories to men's magazines. Many were gathered into the Night Shift collection or appeared in other anthologies. Writing in the evenings and on the weekends, he continued to produce short stories and to work on novels.

Search review text. Therefore, my review is colored by my knowledge of how the rest of the series is. Hence, I only give this book 4 stars because in comparison to the rest of the series, I thought this book was by far the weakest. I think this is even more astounding given the Roland himself was initially patterned on the classic, iconic western gunfighter.

Yet, through the series, I thought he grew beyond his original programming and became a truly unique figure. I can not think of a better way to have ended this epic series and believe that it created a much more powerful memory of the journey through all 7 books. As mentioned in the above introduction, this book only gets 4 stars from me. In large part this is due to both the quality of the later books and also the fact that it is plagued by some inconsistencies that arose due to changes that King made in the later books.

I applaud King for going back and re-writing this story to resolve these conflicts, but I still think this book suffers from the fact that King did not know how LARGE the story would become when he wrote this. How best to describe Roland? In this first installment, which is quite short compared to subsequent volumes we are introduced to Roland and the world he lives in as he is chasing the Man in Black. We are left with the impression of a very ancient world that is fading and running down.

In addition, we learn that it is possible though difficult to travel between the worlds which is a fundamental aspect of the rest of the series. My takeaway, Roland can shoot the eyes out of hummingbird and 50 paces.

From there, the book moves ahead briskly until the inevitable final showdown between Roland and the Man in Black. The details, the interesting nuggets and the time spent with Jake are best experienced fresh so I will avoid spoilers. Overall, a good introduction to Roland and his world but merely an appetizer to the warm buttery goodness that is to follow and the epic tale of the Gunslinger really gets going in the next book. Paperback in English - Scribner trade pbk.

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Hardcover in English - Revised and Expanded Edition 1. De scherpschutter , Poema Pocket. Mass Market Paperback in Dutch - Vijftiende druk. The Gunslinger , Plume. Paperback in English - 1st Plume printing revised edition 1. Library Binding in English - Rebound edition.

The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of and is available in Mass Market Paperback format. The main characters of this fantasy, fiction story are Jake Chambers, Roland Deschain. The book has been awarded with , and many others. Please note that the tricks or techniques listed in this pdf are either fictional or claimed to work by its creator.

Before Roland leaves, Brown asks his permission to eat the mule. At the way station Roland first encounters Jake Chambers , who died in his own world presumably our own when he was pushed in front of a car while walking to school in Manhattan. Roland is nearly dead when he makes it to the way station. Jake brings him water and beef jerky while he is recovering. Jake does not know how long he has been at the way station, nor does he know exactly how he got there.

He hid when the man in black passed by the way station. Roland hypnotizes him to determine the details of his death, but makes him forget before he wakes since Jake's death was extremely violent and painful.

Before they leave the way station they encounter a demon in the cellar while looking for food. After their conversation, Roland snatches the jawbone from the skeleton in the hole, from which the demon speaks. After leaving the way station, Jake and Roland eventually make their way out of the desert into more welcoming lands. Roland rescues Jake from an encounter with a succubus who is an oracle and then couples with the oracle himself in order to learn more about his fate and the path to the Dark Tower.

Roland gives Jake the jawbone from the way station to focus on while he is gone. After Roland returns, Jake discards the jawbone. As Jake and Roland make their way closer to the mountain, Jake begins to fear what will become of him.

In a flashback, we learn about Roland's chance encounter in a kitchen which leads to the hanging of Hax the cook. The apprentice gunslingers are allowed to witness the hanging with their fathers' permission.