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ジャック・ソーヤーは12歳、病身の母と2人、アメリカ東海岸の保養地でひっそり暮している。母の病気は癌らしい。ある日、さびれた遊園地で、ジャックは不思議な黒人スピーディに出会った。タリスマンがあれば母は助かる、そう彼は教えてくれた。タリスマンとは一体なんだろう?ジャックは独り試練の旅に出発する―母の生命を救うために。2人の巨匠が作りあげたファンタジー巨編。
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キングの本の紹介ページでは、この本を｢ダークファンタジー｣と言っていたのをみたことがあるが、私の読後の印象では、また違った感じがしました。ファンタジーというと、結構甘めの印象があるんですが、タリスマンは、決してスーパーヒーローとはいえないごく普通の少年が、母親を助けたい一心で迷ったり苦しんだりしながら、進んでいく成長記みたいな話だと思いました。この話の中では、子供だけの対象に作られる話には決して出てこない単語もでてくるし、かといって、ITや、スタンドのような物語ともどこか違うファンタジー要素ももっています。今まで、中学時代から１３年間キングのファンだったのに、この作品を読むことを先延ばしにしていた事をとても悔やんでいます。
1 人中、1人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
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Computational complexity of this novel and the background: Very high. I could not figure out what is actually going on and what is still hidden, by my computational complexity calculation program. (smile)
This book charts the adventure of a young teen boy named Jack Sawyer --- an analogy to the classic Tom Sawyer. The adolescent hero sets out from Arcadia Beach, New Hampshire in a bid to save his mother, who is dying from cancer, by finding an enchanted crystal called "the Talisman." Oh, what a nice wording!!! --- Talisman.
The premise of the novel involves the existence of a parallel world to Earth, called "the Territories" - a strange fantasy world with ties (though these ties did not exist at the time of publication) to King's The Dark Tower. Individuals in the Territories have "twinners," or parallel individuals, in our world. Twinners' births, deaths, and (it is intimated) other major life events are usually paralleled. Twinners can also flip, but only share the body of their alternate universe's analogue.
In rare instances (such as Jack Sawyer's), a person may die in one world but not the other, making them "single-natured" and giving them the ability to switch back and forth between the two worlds if taught how. Jack is taught how to "flip" by a mysterious figure known as Speedy Parker, who may be a gunslinger named Parkus in the Territories. In his world the beloved Queen Laura DeLoessian, the twinner of Jack's mother (a movie actress known as the "Queen of the B Movies") is also dying.
Various people help or hinder Jack in his quest. Of particular importance are the Werewolves, known simply as Wolfs, who inhabit the Territories. These are not the savage killers of tradition. They serve as royal herdsmen or bodyguards, and can sometimes under stress voluntarily change to wolf form. A sixteen-year-old Wolf, simply named Wolf, is accidentally pulled into America by Jack Sawyer and adopts Jack as his herd, serving as his companion. Wolf is extremely likeable, kind, loyal and friendly, much like a dog, though his wolf nature shows through on occasion. On the other hand, some have joined the antagonists who are trying to stop Jack.
As the story goes back and forth between the Territories and the familiar United States, or "American Territories" as Jack comes to call them, Jack escapes from one life-threatening situation after another. Accompanied by Wolf and later by his childhood friend Richard, Jack must retrieve the Talisman before it falls into the hands of evil schemer Morgan Sloat, Richard's father, who, we later learn, was Jack's father's business partner before arranging to have the latter murdered. He wants to seize their business from Jack's mother. Morgan Sloats's twinner, Morgan of Orris, also plans to seize the Territories in the event of Queen Laura's death.
Mmmmm. Please read this puzzling novel. Maybe you will go crazy...
This book charts the adventure of a young teen boy named Jack Sawyer --- an analogy to the classic Tom Sawyer. The adolescent hero sets out from Arcadia Beach, New Hampshire in a bid to save his mother, who is dying from cancer, by finding an enchanted crystal called "the Talisman." Oh, what a nice wording!!! --- Talisman.
The premise of the novel involves the existence of a parallel world to Earth, called "the Territories" - a strange fantasy world with ties (though these ties did not exist at the time of publication) to King's The Dark Tower. Individuals in the Territories have "twinners," or parallel individuals, in our world. Twinners' births, deaths, and (it is intimated) other major life events are usually paralleled. Twinners can also flip, but only share the body of their alternate universe's analogue.
In rare instances (such as Jack Sawyer's), a person may die in one world but not the other, making them "single-natured" and giving them the ability to switch back and forth between the two worlds if taught how. Jack is taught how to "flip" by a mysterious figure known as Speedy Parker, who may be a gunslinger named Parkus in the Territories. In his world the beloved Queen Laura DeLoessian, the twinner of Jack's mother (a movie actress known as the "Queen of the B Movies") is also dying.
Various people help or hinder Jack in his quest. Of particular importance are the Werewolves, known simply as Wolfs, who inhabit the Territories. These are not the savage killers of tradition. They serve as royal herdsmen or bodyguards, and can sometimes under stress voluntarily change to wolf form. A sixteen-year-old Wolf, simply named Wolf, is accidentally pulled into America by Jack Sawyer and adopts Jack as his herd, serving as his companion. Wolf is extremely likeable, kind, loyal and friendly, much like a dog, though his wolf nature shows through on occasion. On the other hand, some have joined the antagonists who are trying to stop Jack.
As the story goes back and forth between the Territories and the familiar United States, or "American Territories" as Jack comes to call them, Jack escapes from one life-threatening situation after another. Accompanied by Wolf and later by his childhood friend Richard, Jack must retrieve the Talisman before it falls into the hands of evil schemer Morgan Sloat, Richard's father, who, we later learn, was Jack's father's business partner before arranging to have the latter murdered. He wants to seize their business from Jack's mother. Morgan Sloats's twinner, Morgan of Orris, also plans to seize the Territories in the event of Queen Laura's death.
Mmmmm. Please read this puzzling novel. Maybe you will go crazy...
1 人中、1人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
形式:文庫
１２歳の少年が母を救うため（＝世界を救うため？）、アメリカの東海岸から西海岸を横断する放浪記。本書はスティーヴン・キングとピーター・ストラウブの共作であるが、どのように役割分担をしたのだろうか？ 読み進めているとキングらしい悪趣味な小道具が豊富に散りばめられているものの、彼独特の執拗なまでの細密描写は影を潜めていることに気がつく。この物語の大きなテーマのひとつは少年の成長である。キングの「トム・ゴードンを愛した少女」のヒロインよりもハードな行く手が待っており、絶望スレスレのところを何度もかろうじて回避している。確かにこれだけの修羅場を乗り越えれば、嫌でも成長せざるを得ないだろうと思う。上巻の結末の時点では少年は袋小路に陥っている。下巻ではどのような展開が待っているのか、まるで予想が立たない。これから下巻を紐解いて行くのがとても楽しみだ。
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