Stephen King & Peter Straub · 1984 · road

Stephen King and Peter Straub's 1984 fantasy epic. Twelve-year-old Jack Sawyer sets out from Arcadia Beach on the New Hampshire coast on a quest across the whole United States to find the Talisman, the only thing that can save his dying mother. Flipping between our world and the parallel medieval Territories, he crosses the heartland - a brutal boys' home in Indiana, the road with the werewolf Wolf - to the California coast.

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   Arcadia Beach

   The faded New Hampshire seaside resort where Jack and his dying mother have fled, and where the old handyman Speedy Parker sends 'Travellin' Jack' west on his quest for the Talisman.

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   Oatley

   A grim upstate New York town where Jack is trapped working in a bar, getting his first taste of the dangers of the road and the enemies who pursue him across two worlds.

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   Sunlight Home

   The sadistic Indiana 'home for wayward boys' run by a religious fanatic, where Jack is imprisoned and where his loyal friend Wolf makes a terrible sacrifice to free him.

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   Point Venuti

   The eerie California coastal town and the black Agincourt Hotel, where the Talisman waits at journey's end and the boundaries between the worlds finally collapse.