The Dark Tower

Pages: 790
Published: 2004
Language: Italian

The Dark Tower closes the saga Stephen King began in 1982 with The Gunslinger. After six volumes of crossed worlds, hard losses, and a widening mythology that reaches into much of King's other fiction, Roland Deschain and his ka-tet — Susannah Dean, Eddie Dean, Jake Chambers, Father Callahan and the billy-bumbler Oy — near the end of the road to the Dark Tower itself, the nexus said to hold every world together.

The final volume brings the series' long-running antagonists, the sorcerer Walter (also known as Randall Flagg) and the Crimson King, to a head, and answers what has driven Roland since the opening chase across the desert: what waits at the top of the Tower, and what it will cost him to reach it.

Published in 2004, The Dark Tower completed a saga King had been writing since his twenties, tying the series' mythology explicitly to other novels including The Stand and It.

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Stephen King

Stephen King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author whose work has defined popular horror fiction for more than half a century. Born in Portland, Maine, he grew up in poverty after his father abandoned the family, and credits his mother's resilience and a voracious reading habit as the foundations of his imagination. He began selling short stories to men's magazines while working as a high school English teacher, and published his first novel, Carrie, in 1974—his wife Tabitha retrieved...