The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
First edition cover
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| Author | Stephen King |
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| Cover artist | Ned Dameron |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | The Dark Tower |
| Genre | Fantasy, horror, science fiction |
| Publisher | Grant |
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August 1991 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 512 |
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| Preceded by | The Drawing of the Three |
| Followed by | Wizard and Glass |
The Waste Lands (subtitled "Redemption") is the third book of the The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. The original limited edition hardcover featuring full-color illustrations by Ned Dameron was published in 1991 by Grant. The book was reissued in 2003 to coincide with the publication of The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla.
The book derives its title from the T. S. Eliot 1922 poem The Waste Land, several lines of which are reprinted in the opening pages. In addition, the two main sections of the book ("Jake: Fear in a Handful of Dust" and "Lud: A Heap of Broken Images") are named after lines in the poem.
The Waste Lands was nominated for the 1991 Bram Stoker Award for Novel.
The story begins five weeks after the end of The Drawing of the Three. Roland, Susannah, and Eddie have moved east from the shore of the Western Sea, and into the woods of Out-World. After an encounter with a gigantic cyborg bear named Shardik, they discover one of the six mystical Beams that hold the world together. The three gunslingers follow the Path of the Beam inland to Mid-World.
Roland now reveals to his ka-tet that his mind has become divided and is slowing losing his sanity. Roland remembers meeting Jake Chambers in the way station and letting him fall to his death in the mountains (as depicted in The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger). However, he also remembers passing through the desert alone and never meeting Jake. It's soon discovered that when Roland saved Jake from being killed by Jack Mort in 1977 (in The Drawing of the Three), he inadvertently created a paradox; Jake did not die and thus did not appear in Mid-World and travel with Roland.
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