The Drawing of the Three
A wounded gunslinger crosses portals into New York to recruit three fated companions for his quest.
First published 1990 · The Dark Tower
FantasyHorror
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Story
Roland wakes on a hostile beach after the previous book’s events, badly injured and threatened by strange sea creatures. While fighting to survive, he discovers mysterious doorways that seem to open into other times and lives.
Each door leads Roland into a different person’s world, where he must understand their problems, gain their trust, and bring them into his own perilous journey. The encounters unfold across different years and realities, with crime, addiction, instability, and violence shaping each recruit’s story.
As Roland draws his companions together, the group begins to take shape as a fate-bound team. The novel builds toward the formation of that alliance while keeping the larger Tower quest in motion, ending with the journey still incomplete and the path ahead unresolved.
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Details
- Authors
- Stephen King
- First published
- 1990
- Genres
- Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction, Adventure, Westerns, Thriller, Dark Fantasy
- Subjects
- sociopaths · dissociative identity disorder · civil rights · heroin · cocaine · lobstrosities · tarot cards · horror fiction · American fantasy fiction · horror tales · Fiction · second volume (The Dark Tower saga) · fantasy fiction · Parallel universes · Post-apocalpytic · Apocalyptic literature · Roland (Fictitious character : King) · Fantastic fiction · Good and evil · Fiction, fantasy, epic · Dark tower (imaginary place), fiction · Roland (fictitious character : king), fiction · American Authors · Fiction, fantasy, general · Science fiction, fantasy, horror · Roland (Fictitious character)
- ISBN-13
- 9780451210852
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