Another important part of Roland's story is how he and his friends capture a pink colored Wizards glass, a kind of evil crystal ball. We also learn of Roland's first love Susan Delgado. His story tells out about an evil type of sorcerer, Marten, and many of Roland's trials, with his trusty friends, Cuthbert and Alain. They camp out near a 'thinny' (thinnys are where the different versions of worlds are close and you can go from one to the next, I believe, though the creatures in between the worlds is nasty and can kill you) and Roland tells the story of how he got his guns and became a man.

It has been wiped out by the virus from the Stand book and popular things(cars, sports teams and sodas) have different names.

It's not our Kansas, or any of the characters in the book's either. They get off the train in the 80's in Kansas. Wizard and Glass is a thrilling read from 'the reigning King of American popular literature' ( Los Angeles Daily News).This starts up with Eddie, Jake, Susannah and Roland still riddling with Blaine. While following the deserted I-70 toward a distant glass palace, Roland recounts his tragic story about a seaside town called Hambry, where he fell in love with a girl named Susan Delgado, and where he and his old tet-mates Alain and Cuthbert battled the forces of John Farson, the harrier who-with a little help from a seeing sphere called Maerlyn's Grapefruit-ignited Mid-World's final war.įilled with 'blazing action' ( Booklist), the fourth installment in the Dark Tower Series 'whets the appetite for more' ( Bangor Daily News). In Wizard and Glass, Stephen King is 'at his most ebullient.sweeping readers up in.swells of passion' ( Publishers Weekly) as Roland the Gunslinger, Eddie, Susannah, and Jake survive Blaine the Mono's final crash, only to find themselves stranded in an alternate version of Topeka, Kansas, that has been ravaged by the superflu virus.

The fourth volume in the brilliant Dark Tower Series is 'splendidly tense.rip-roaring' ( Publishers Weekly)-a #1 national bestseller about an epic quest to save the universe.

Wizard and Glass by Stephen King