Jack Sawyer in the Tommyknockers?

[Scott C]

Is the boy Gard meets at the river after the party Jack Saywer or what...sorry if it's an obvious ?
but had to know...there seems to be alot of cross reference to characters in other books...which i love..of course!

[sam peebles]

Yes, although it isn't explicity said, the boy Gard meets is Jack Sawyer, or at least an homage.

[randallFlaggfan1]

Does the text specifically say "Jack Sawyer," or is his appearance implied?

[Lencho_of_the_Apes]

The text says the boy is named Jack, and it's happening at the same seaside resort where Talisman started, and the boy talks about his mother... but it never gives his last name.

I believe the book's set on a different world that doesn't exactly correspond to the Talisman world, and this boy is Jack's counterpart "twinner" in that universe.

If I remember correctly, Peter Straub said in an interview somewhere that the Tommyknockers boy was not Jack Sawyer. And it's probably possible to compare this little segment of Tommyknockers with the part of Black House that tells what happened to Jack Sawyer after Talisman ended. I suspect they won't match up.

We all float down here.

[Bev Vincent]

It could be "Jack in a different timeline" or it could be just some dude named Jack. As Lencho says, Peter Straub has said that he didn't think the boy was Jack Sawyer.

[GNTLGNT]

I like my homages with fromages...

[MikeB]

The text says the boy is named Jack, and it's happening at the same seaside resort where Talisman started, and the boy talks about his mother... but it never gives his last name.

I believe the book's set on a different world that doesn't exactly correspond to the Talisman world, and this boy is Jack's counterpart "twinner" in that universe.

If I remember correctly, Peter Straub said in an interview somewhere that the Tommyknockers boy was not Jack Sawyer. And it's probably possible to compare this little segment of Tommyknockers with the part of Black House that tells what happened to Jack Sawyer after Talisman ended. I suspect they won't match up.

We all float down here.

I though all Jack's Twinners had died and it was his single nature that allowed him to flip between worlds?

[garygak]

I though all Jack's Twinners had died and it was his single nature that allowed him to flip between worlds?

Imagine what we could do if we paid this much attention to our real lives!

[bryantburnette]

I reread The Tommyknockers earlier this year, and I really don't see any way to draw a conclusion other than that it is Jack Sawyer, and that it's the same Jack from The Talisman. Back in April I wrote a post about this very matter on my blog (Ramblings of a Honk Mahfah). Looking back at it now, it's a little snarkier than it probably ought to have been, but I think I've said some worthwhile things in it. Have a look, if it please ya.