THE WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE. “The Dark Tower“

For readers new to The Dark Tower, The Wind Through The Keyholeis a stand-alone novel, and a wonderful introduction to the series.It is a story within a story, which features both the younger andolder gunslinger Roland on his quest to find the Dark Tower. Fansof the existing seven books in the series will also delight indiscovering what happened to Roland and his ka tet between the timethey leave the Emerald City and arrive at the outskirts of CallaBryn Sturgis.

This Russian Doll of a novel, a story within a story,within a story, visits Mid-Worlds last gunslinger, Roland Deschain,and his ka-tet as a ferocious storm halts their progress along thePath of the Beam. (The novel can be placed between Dark Tower IVand Dark Tower V.) Roland tells a tale from his early days as agunslinger, in the guilt ridden year following his mothers death.Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shapeshifter, a skin man, Roland takes charge of Bill Streeter, a bravebut terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beastsmost recent slaughter. Roland, himself only a teenager, calms theboy by reciting a story from the Book of Eld that his mother usedto read to him at bedtime, The Wind through the Keyhole. A personsnever too old for stories, he says to Bill. Man and boy, girl andwoman, we live for them. And stories like these, they live forus.