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ISBN: 0684867621 Title: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon Author: Stephen King Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade Date Published: April 1999 Format: Trade Cloth click here to order this book or find out more
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From The Publisher:
The brochure promised a "moderate-to-difficult" six-mile hike on the Maine-New Hampshire branch
of the Appalachian Trail, where nine-year-old Trisha McFarland was to spend Saturday with her older
brother, Pete, and her recently divorced mother. When she wanders off to escape their constant
bickering, then tries to catch up by attempting a shortcut through the woods, Trisha strays deeper into
a wilderness full of peril and terror. Especially when night falls. Trisha has only her wits for navigation,
only her ingenuity as a defense against the elements, only her courage and faith to withstand her
mounting fear. For solace she tunes her Walkman to broadcasts of Boston Red Sox games and the
gritty performances of her hero, number 36, relief pitcher Tom Gordon. And when her radio's
reception begins to fade, Trisha imagines that Tom Gordon is with her - her key to surviving an enemy
known only by the slaughtered animals and mangled trees in its wake.
From People Magazine:
You may not care about Gordon, but you will about Trisha.
From Christopher Lehmann-Haupt - The New York Times:
...[R]eading the novel produces...satisfying moments of feverish terror....As the narrator puts it: "The
world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted. She knew that now. She was only
9, but she knew it, and she thought she could accept it"....Thanks to Mr. King's gruesome imagination,
you as a reader feel the sharpness of those teeth.
From Wall Street Journal:
Stephen King at his best...a wonderful story of courage, faith and hope...eminently engaging and
difficult to put down.
From USA Today:
A delightful read, a literary walk in the woods...[T]he novel is less about baseball than about faith,
perseverance and survival.
From New York Daily News:
Stephen King's new novel expertly stirs the major ingredients of the American psyche -- our
spirituality, fierce love of children, passion for baseball and collective fear of the bad thing we know
lurks on the periphery of life.
From NY Times Book Review:
...[T]he idea of "closing" as a metaphor for conquering demons is a deft addition to King's crowded
field.
From Rebecca Ascher-Walsh - Entertainment Weekly:
...[F]inds its fright factor not in the supernatural but in the demons within....[King is] at his best when
he keeps the creepy elements to a minimum and concentrates on his girl-against-nature tale....[The
book] isn't going to keep die-hard horror fans up at night, but adventure addicts will find plenty of
thrills.
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Masterful...Trisha is a tough little kid, but is she any match for the monsters of our imagination? Who
among us hasn't wandered through the wild without that eerie feeling that someone is watching...King
uses that creepy-crawly paranoia to perfection.
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