In his New York Times bestselling The Wind Through the Keyhole, Stephen King returns to the spectacular territory of the Dark Tower fantasy saga to tell a story about gunslinger Roland Deschain in his early days.
The Wind Through the Keyhole is a sparkling contribution to the series that can be placed between Dark Tower IV and Dark Tower V. This Russian doll of a novel, a story within a story within a story, visits Roland and his ka-tet as a ferocious, frigid storm halts their progress along the Path of the Beam. Roland tells a tale from his early days as a gunslinger, in the guilt-ridden year following his motherâs death. Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape-shifter, Roland takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beastâs most recent slaughter. Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Book of Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, âThe Wind through the Keyhole.â âA personâs never too old for stories,â he says to Bill. âMan and boy, girl and woman, we live for them.â
And stories like The Wind Through the Keyhole live for us with Stephen Kingâs fantastical magic that âcreates the kind of fully imagined fictional landscapes a reader can inhabit for days at a stretchâ (The Washington Post).
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31/12/2022