Roland later meets a boy, Jake Chambers, who joins the gunslinger on his journey across the Mohaine Desert and into the Cyclopean Mountains. Tolkien's the Lord of the Rings, the western flavor of Sergio Leone's " Dollars Trilogy," the character of " The Man With No Name," and the theme of Robert Browning's " Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came," The Gunslinger conveys the tale of Roland Deschain of Gilead, New Canaan in All-world, the last gunslinger in a parallel universe that has "moved on." The book concerns Roland's pursuit of the man in black during which Roland recalls his training under Cort and a stopover in Tull. The book was illustrated by Michael Whelan. The book was released by Grant on 10 June 1982 and was the first volume of the Dark Tower series. The Gunslinger is the 14th book published by Stephen King it was his twelfth novel and the eighth novel under his own name.
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