Wizard and Glass by Stephen King - Fantasy - SFBookcase.com - Reference of Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels/Authors.

Series: The Dark Tower
Volume: 4
Genre: Fantasy
ISBN: 0340696621
Pages: 856 pages
Publisher: New English Library
Price: £6.99
Reader Rating: 8 out of 10
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Wizard and Glass by Stephen King

Description: In the fourth book of the 'Dark Tower' series, we are given a glimpse of Roland as a young gunslinger, delivering a tale of intrigue, magic, deception, and love gained and lost. We are let into Roland's childhood to witness the sacrifices a young man was forced to make to create the character we know as Roland, the gunslinger. The story ends with Blaine the Mono being destroyed. The band gathers a ways down and Roland tells his tale. He left Gilead with Cuthbert and Alain, and went to the town of Mejis, ostensibly to count the taxable goods and property there. Their cover story is that they are three boys who got into a mischief serious enough for their fathers to send them on a busy-work mission of penitence. The boys are expected to find nothing untoward, but they do. They find horses in numbers greater than there ought to be, and crude oil in movable tankers from before the world moved on - all secretly meant for the rebel forces of the Good Man, whose war threatens the future of the entire world, of all worlds. And it is in Mejis that Roland will meet Susan, the young woman whose love for him (and his for her) will haunt him to the ends of the changing world.