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TALISMAN.

by Peter Straub and Stephen King.

REVIEWS:

The terror just mounts and mounts. -- Stephen King.

The scariest book Ive ever read....It crawls under your skin and into your dreams. --Chicago Sun-Times.

OVERVIEW: In The Talisman, 12-year-old Jack Sawyer takes on a quest in this and a parallel world, the Territories, to acquire a mystical talisman that will save the life of his dying mother and her Twinner, the Queen of the Territories. Jack flips back and forth between worlds during his journey, finding his way through and past representatives of good and evil in both.

2001 Ballantine, 768 pages. List price $8.00.