false 28253613 1290247 1451097 0743520165 9780743520164 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183740002m/1451097.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183740002s/1451097.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1451097.The_Talisman 3.11 9 Length: 28 hours and 5 min.

To coincide with the publication of Stephen King and Peter Straub's extraordinary new thriller, BLACK HOUSE, here is the story that started it all.

On a brisk autumn day, a twelve-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 everything is about to change. For he has been chosen to make a journey back across America--and into another realm.

One of the most influential and heralded works of fantasy ever written, The Talisman is an extraordinary novel of loyalty, awakening, terror, and mystery. Jack Sawyer, on a desperate quest to save his mother's life, must search for a prize across an epic landscape of innocents and monsters, of incredible dangers and even more incredible truths. The prize is essential, but the journey means even more. Let the quest begin. . . .]]> 3389 3.75 734827 32979 6941 3.84 22323 1197 1985 5 0 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Fri Jul 25 07:46:49 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 25 07:48:51 -0700 2008 The Talisman is both haunting and moving.

When The Black House was released I made sure I listened to them back to back, and it was as if the last twenty years never happened.]]>