Song of Susannah
by Stephen King
Susannah, now pregnant, has yet another taking control of her. The demon-mother, Mia, uses Susannah and Black Thirteen to transport to New York City of 1999. Jake, Oy, and Pere Callahan must rescue Susannah while Eddie and Roland transport to the Maine of 1977. A vacant lot in New York must be saved and ties these together.
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Flap: The next-to-last novel in Stephen King's seven-volume magnum
opus, Song of Susannah is at once a book of revelation, a fascinating key
to the unfolding mystery of the Dark Tower, and a fast-paced story of
double-barreled suspense. To give birth to her "chap," demon-mother Mia
has usurped the body of Susannah Dean and used the power of Black Thirteen
to transport to New York City in the summer of 1999. The city is strange
to Susannah . . . and terrifying to the "daughter of none" who shares her
body and mind. Saving the Tower depends not only on rescuing Susannah but
also on securing the vacant lot Calvin Tower owns before he loses it to
the Sombra Corporation. Enlisting the aid of Manni senders, the remaining
ka-tet climbs to the Doorway Cave . . . and discovers that magic has its
own mind. It falls to the boy, the billy bumbler, and the fallen priest to
find Susannah-Mia, who in a struggle to cope -- with each other and with
an alien environment -- "go todash" to Castle Discordia on the border of
End-World. In that forsaken place, Mia reveals her origins, her purpose,
and her fierce desire to mother whatever creature the two of them have
carried to term. Eddie and Roland, meanwhile, tumble into western Maine in
the summer of 1977, a world that should be idyllic but isn't. For one
thing, it is real, and the bullets are flying. For another, it is
inhabited by the author of a novel called 'Salem's Lot, awriter who turns
out to be as shocked by them as they are by him. These are the simple
vectors of a story rich in complexity and conflict. Its dual climaxes, one
at the entrance to a deadly dining establishment and the other appended to
the pages of a writer's journal, will leave readers gasping for the saga's
final volume (which, Dear Reader, follows soon, say thankya).
Series (The Dark Tower) Summary: At the age of 19 Stephen decided he would like to write an epic similar to The Lord of the Rings. The “spaghetti Westerns” of that time and a poem written by Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came,” became the inspiration for his magnum opus. The series written and published separately over a period of 22 years consists of seven books and the short story, “The Little Sisters of Eluria” published in his short story collection, Everything’s Eventual.
From Author's official site, www.stephenking.com
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