Super Short Summary

In The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King, Roland, the last gunslinger, awakens on a beach in his world and is immediately attacked by monstrous “lobstrosities,” losing the fingers on his shooting hand and becoming infected. He finds three doors on the beach, each leading to different times in New York City, where he meets Eddie Dean, Odetta Holmes (and her alter ego Detta Walker), and Jack Mort. Together, they navigate their intertwined destinies, and Roland gains crucial companions for his quest for the Dark Tower. The book contains sensationalized portrayals of and outdated terms for substance use, dissociative identity disorder, disabilities, and other health conditions, as well as racist language and insensitive conversations around race.