{"product_id":"dark-tower-i-the-gunslinger","title":"The Dark Tower, Book I: The Gunslinger","description":"                                            In this first novel in his epic fantasy masterpiece, Stephen King introduces readers to one of his most enigmatic heroes, Roland of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner, on a spellbinding journey into good and evil, in a desolate world which frighteningly echoes our own.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his first step towards the powerful and mysterious Dark Tower, Roland encounters an alluring woman named Alice, begins a friendship with Jake, a kid from New York, and faces an agonising choice between damnation and salvation as he pursues the Man in Black.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBoth grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike, THE GUNSLINGER leaves readers eagerly awaiting the next chapter.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd the Tower is closer...\u003cbr\u003e'At the age of 19 Stephen decided he would like to write an epic similar to \u003ci\u003eThe Lord of the Rings\u003c\/i\u003e. The 'spaghetti Westerns' of that time [specifically \u003ci\u003eThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly\u003c\/i\u003e] and a poem written by Robert Browning, 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came', became the inspiration for his magnum opus. The series written and published separately over a period of 22 years consists of seven books and the short story, 'The Little Sisters of Eluria' published in his short story collection, EVERYTHING'S EVENTUAL.' \u003ci\u003eFrom the author's website\u003c\/i\u003e.\r\n                                        ","brand":"The Dark Tower","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42280819228863,"sku":"9781444723441","price":26.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/1689\/8751\/products\/bYFJjAmXLM8dDTzdQzaGfnJJ5CsXlnpF-woY8K-QJQKkCw_60_60.jpg?v=1678945728","url":"https:\/\/www.popweasel.co.nz\/products\/dark-tower-i-the-gunslinger","provider":"Pop Weasel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}