Lost Grounds

lost Grounds is a Romance of the American writer Stephen King of 1991, published in France in 1992.

Titrate original: The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands . French translation of Jean-Daniel Breque and Christiane Poulain.

It is about the third shutter of the series the Tower Sinks , and the direct continuation of the Three Charts .

Synopsis

The history begins several weeks, after the end of the novel the Three Charts . Roland finally succeeded in making come in his world Eddie and Susannah. Together, they move towards the east and move away from the coast.
They face a gigantic bear Cyborg, named Shardik . They then discover one of the six mythical beams which support the turn sinks .

Roland is torn by two contradictory realities, one in which it let Jake die, the other in which Jake always did not die and lives in New York. And in its world, Jake is victim of the same contradiction. Both believe to become fous.
The only solution that it them remainder is to open a passage between the two worlds to make it possible Jake to join them. For that, it is necessary the key for them, and to find the door.

The group is joined soon by a billy-bumbler (bafou-bafouilleux in the translation of editions 84), combination of dog and raccoon equipped of rudimentary capacities of word and a high intelligence for an animal.

Once joined together, the Ka-Small fireclay cup undertakes really the search of the Dark Tower while following the beam. This one passes by Lud, a devastated city which resembles curiously New York with the George Washington Bridge.
the old city was devastated by years of internal war. The Ka-Small fireclay cup will flee of it at the edge of Blaine the Mono.

Characters

  • Roland de Gilead, pistolero

  • Edward Cantor Dean, known as Eddie, ex-junkie
  • Susannah Dean, handicapped Afro-American
  • Jake Chambers

Twelve gates and guards

Twelve guards protect the twelve gates at the end from each beam. Thus each guard is associated with a second, preserving the gate at the other end of the beam.

Shardik was created by North Central Positronics Ltd , a company connected with mysterious the Sombra coporation . These companies belong to the crimson King .

The pairs of guards are:

  • Bear - Tortoise

  • Horse - Dog
  • Rat - Poisson
  • Elephant - Wolf
  • Lion - Eagle

External bonds

  • Encyclopédie supplements on the Lathe Sinks

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