The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla: 5 - Softcover

King, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0743251628 ISBN 13: 9780743251624

Publisher: Scribner Book Company, 2005

Synopsis

Now a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba

Wolves of the Calla is the highly anticipated fifth book in Stephen King's Dark Tower series--a unique bestselling epic fantasy quest inspired many years ago by The Lord of the Rings.

Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters, the Dark Tower series is unlike anything you have ever read. Here is the fifth installment.

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Review:

In Wolves of the Calla, volume five of Stephen King's epic fantasy western The Dark Tower, coincidence has, as Eddie Dean observes, been cancelled. Everything the gunslinger Roland and his companions encounter has taken on symbolic significance. So when they come to Calla Bryn Sturgis, named after the director of The Magnificent Seven, its clear that King will follow the classic western archetype of a small band of heroes defending peaceable homesteaders. Here, the heroes resist masked raiders who abduct one of each pair of twins (and almost all children are twins), only to return them a month later horribly changed.

Father Callahan from King's Salem's Lot is resident in Calla Bryn Sturgis, and has his own tale of vampires, regulators and the secret highways though alternative Americas. Not coincidentally, the evil Glass Black 13 is hidden in his church. Meanwhile Susannah is again sporting a secondary personality, this time Mia, mother to the inhuman child that Susannah does not know she is carrying, while Roland realises their quest has become a race against the arthritis which will soon leave him crippled.

In this enormously ambitious book, King continues to weave together his back catalogue with the pop culture and literature of America itself, noting in his introduction that if you haven't read the previous Dark Tower volumes this isn't the place to begin. It is, though, a hugely entertaining adventure, rich in allusion; a passing aside to Thomas Wolfe might easily be dismissed, yet his title You Can't Go Home Again, encapsulates this entire spellbinding odyssey as well as five words ever will. --Gary S Dalkin

Review:

One gets the feeling that this colossal story means a lot to King, that he's telling it because he has to....he's giving The Dark Tower everything he's got.--San Francisco Chronicle

Wolves of the Calla is one of the strongest entries yet in what will surely be a master storyteller's magnum opus.--Locus

[A] hypnotic blend of suspense and sentimentality...a sprawling, eventful tale of demons, monsters, narrow escapes, and magic portals.--The New York Times Book Review

The man can spin a yarn, and a great one at that.--The Philadelphia Inquirer

The master of the macabre....[King] is still quite the entertainer.--People

An impressive work of mythic magnitude. May turn out to be Stephen King's greatest literary achievement.--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

It works because King, despite his long resume, keeps insisting on surprising himself and, in so doing, surprising us.--The Kansas City Star

Brilliant in technique and ability...Feed your head! Now dig in, 'cause King's latest in this seven-course banquet...is a lip-smacking, brain-filling repast.--The Denver Post

"The Dark Tower" is King's masterpiece....Wolves of the Calla succeeds as a standalone work.--Bangor Daily News

The high suspense and extensive character development here...plus the enormity of King's ever-expanding universe, will surely keep his "Constant Readers" in awe.--Publishers Weekly

About this edition

• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0743251628
• ISBN 13: 9780743251624
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 736
• Illustrator: Wrightson Bernie