THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM GORDON

Stephen King

ISBN 10: 0340765585 / ISBN 13: 9780340765586

Editore: Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1999

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First impression of the first UK edition. ***Very good in blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Top and tail of spine slightly bumped. Light vertical crease to the spine. Corners sharp. Paper bright and hardly tanned. Pages clean. Slight spine lean. Spine tight. No inscriptions. ***In a very good colour-illustrated dustwrapper that has not been price-clipped, showing original publisher's price of £12.99. Extremities of dustwrapper very slightly rubbed at the top and tail of the spine. No tears. Dustwrapper slightly faded on the spine, otherwise bright and clean. ***223 mm x145 mm. 213 pages plus two-page author's postscript. ***'The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted. Trisha McFarland discovered this when she was nine years old. Lost in the woods. Trying not to be terrified, trying not to let herself think that sometimes when people get lost in the woods they got seriously hurt. Sometimes they died.' ***'A classic story that engages us at the most primal level, "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon" explores our deep dread of the unknown and the extent to which faith can conquer it.' (Quote from inside front of dustwrapper blurb). ***First impression of the first UK edition in its original dustwrapper. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Codice articolo 6943

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Titolo: THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM GORDON

Casa editrice: Hodder & Stoughton, London

Data di pubblicazione: 1999

Legatura: Hardcover

Condizione: Very Good

Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good

Edizione: First UK Edition

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"The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted. Trisha McFarland discovered this when she was nine years old. Trying not to be terrified. Trying not to think that sometimes when people got lost in the woods they got seriously hurt. Sometimes they died. And all because she needed to pee...". This is the story of a girl who gets lost on an outing in the Northeast woods. In her panic to get back on the track, she takes turnings which lead her deeper and deeper into the terrifying woods. With only a small amount of food and water in her knapsack, she begins to give up hope of ever getting out. Alive. The only thing that keeps her going is her Walkman on which she listens avidly to Red Sox baseball games, creating an imaginary friendship with her hero Tom Gordon. And as she struggles for survival and a way out, she realises she's not alone. There's something else in the woods - and it's watching her...

Recensione:

Vintage King... the quality of the prose is consistently impressive and his trump card is his ability to arouse empathy for the plight of his young heroine (Matt Thorne, Independent on Sunday)

Moving, gripping. One of his best...A literary home run (Mirror)

Utterly compulsive, bears ample witness to King's mastery of his craft (Mail on Sunday)

King writing at his compelling best (Express on Sunday)