Specifications: Volume -written by King and Peter Straub . Dated 1983 is a novel and decidedly longish thick (over 650 pages). Edition recommended and cost: Sperling Paperback, € 10.40.
Comment: The story is complex and simple at the same time tells of a young boy, Jack Sawyer, who somehow decide to save the life of the mother suffering from cancer. The only solution is to find "the talisman, an amulet that will undo the incredible disease.
Her research starts with a few directions, given by a friend (a guy of color who runs a carousel in an amusement park). Jack wanders around the United States, without a particular destination, but has the ability, when he wants and when he decides to focus and "move in a parallel world," the Territories. These are in all respects similar to the real world (in fact taking is like running the world), but proportionally smaller, in an unspecified ancient times and far more dangerous.
Jack uses this "trick" to shorten their own way, and passes from one world to another with ease, in this second world meets Wolf, a boy who accidentally ends up in the "real" world with him, during a jump time and space. Wolf is a werewolf (but from?!?) That will help him in his research and his personal battle Conteo the partner of his father, a man who will put a spoke in the wheels in both worlds (preventing research and salvation of the mother), until the conclusion and the finding of the talisman.
The sense of this story, as written with great precision and punctuality, I somewhat obscure. In the sense that Jack is certainly a positive character, as well as Wolf. And is designed very well managing the parallel worlds (which works fine in the economy of the story).
But the story is long, sometimes faragginoso and sluggish (among other things, one of the few defects when King headed toward a topic or a stretch of fiction). The question of the talisman (the meaning of the story) I was not convinced, and the ending is as dreamy and glitter, I was not impressed.
Other notes: the story was made into a film (converted) and a second volume ( Black House), always written by King, about the life as an adult, Jack Sawyer.
Overall Rating: 5
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