Roland of Gilead, the Iast Gunslinger, sets out in pursuit of the Man in Black into a desolate world which frighteningly echoes our own.
In his first step towards the powerful and mysterious Dark Tower. Roland encounters an alluring woman named Alice and begins a friendship with Jake, a kid from New York. Faced with an agonising choice, Roland is torn between damnation and salvation as he determines to find out what the Man in Black knows.
Both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike, The Gunslinger leaves readers eagerly …
Roland of Gilead, the Iast Gunslinger, sets out in pursuit of the Man in Black into a desolate world which frighteningly echoes our own.
In his first step towards the powerful and mysterious Dark Tower. Roland encounters an alluring woman named Alice and begins a friendship with Jake, a kid from New York. Faced with an agonising choice, Roland is torn between damnation and salvation as he determines to find out what the Man in Black knows.
Both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike, The Gunslinger leaves readers eagerly awaiting the next chapter . ..
And the Tower is closer ... --back cover
Paperback, 212 pages
English language
Published March 14, 1997 by New English Library.
This book feels like a prologue to The Drawing of the Three and the epic to follow. I'll be honest: I'm not certain readers would be missing much if they skipped The Gunslinger entirely and relied solely on "The Argument" at the beginning of The Drawing of the Three to catch them up 🤷♂️
