![]() ![]() ![]() In the semi-medieval Territories, he faces tree-monsters and assorted "thing" attackers-but also acquires a devoted, brave sidekick: a werewolf named Wolf, who travels with Jack into the real world. tavern harassment from pederasts dreadful days in a neo-Diekensian "Home" for delinquent boys. ![]() In the real world his ordeals include: slave-labor at an upstate N.Y. Jack's trek begins on the Atlantic coast, where an old black man at a seedy "Funworld" tells him about the Territories, The Talisman, and the "Twinners" (parallel-universe doppelgangers) and these first chapters recall the murky hoo-hah of Straub's opaque Shadowland-as Jack learns that his nemesis is his dead father's evil business partner Morgan Sloat, known in the Territories as "Morgan of Orris." Still, Jack plunges ahead-walking west but flipping into the Territories whenever Morgan's pursuit becomes lethal. The quasi-cosmic, picaresque journey of twelve-year-old Jack Sawyer-across America on foot, "flipping" in and out of a parallel universe called the "Territories"-in quest of a magical talisman that will save his widowed mother (a former B-movie star) from dying of cancer. ![]()
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