The Talisman ~ Paperback ~ Stephen King

The iconic, extraordinary ("The Washington Post") collaboration between #1 bestselling author Stephen King and Peter Straub an epic thriller about a young boy s quest to save his mother s life. Why had twelve-year-old Jack Sawyer s mother frantically moved the two of them from Rodeo Drive to a New York City apartment to the Alhambra, a fading ocean resort and shuttered amusement park in New Hampshire? Who or what is she running from? She is dying . . . and even young Jack knows she can t outrun death. But only he can save her for he has been chosen to search for a prize across an epic landscape of dangers and lies, a realm of innocents and monsters, where everything Jack loves is on the line."Author BiographyStephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King. Peter Straub is the "New York Times" bestselling author of more than a dozen novels. He lives in New York City.