Fiction mirroring reality or vice-versa?
Talisman, The
Formats: Hardcover/Paperback/Limited Edition/Kindle/Audio
First Edition Release Date: November, 1984
Synopsis:
Twelve-year-old Jack Sawyer embarks on an epic quest-a walk from the seacoast of New Hampshire to the California coast-to find the talisman that will save his dying mother’s life. Jack’s journey takes him into the Territories, a parallel medieval universe, where most people from his own universe have analogs called “twinners.” The queen of the Territories, Jack’s mother’s twinner, is also dying.
There’s a larger allegory here than that in the book, the reluctance, nay, desperation involved in letting one’s mother die — this is precisely the mindset that predisposes one to become dependent on the Mother in Washington, the tender, feeding hand of Government to soothe each fevered brow...