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"Entertainment Weekly" Plenty of thrills...[King's] an elegant writer and a master of pacing."New York Daily News" A fast, scary read...King blasts a homer...[He] 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."People" An absorbing tale..."Tom Gordon" scores big."San Francisco Examiner" A gem....Superb."St. Louis Post-Dispatch" King paints a masterful, terrifying picture of every child's (and maybe adult's) worst fear...King uses that creepy-crawly paranoia to perfection."The New York Times" Frightening....Feverish terror."The Wall Street Journal" Impressive...A wonderful story of courage, faith, and hope. It is eminently engaging and difficult to put down."USA Today" A delightful read, a literary walk in the woods, and not just for baseball fans. Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers.xa0His recent work includes Holly , Fairy Tale , Billy Summers , If It Bleeds , The Institute , Elevation , The Outsider , Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch , Findersxa0Keepers ,xa0and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winnerxa0for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel 11/22/63 was named axa0top ten book of 2011 by Thexa0New York Timesxa0Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower , It , Pet Sematary , Doctor Sleep , and Firestarter are the basis forxa0major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipientxa0of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, thexa02014 National Medal of Arts, and thexa02003 National Book Foundation Medal forxa0Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.xa0He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife,xa0novelist Tabitha King.
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- The acclaimed #1
- New York Times
- bestseller from Stephen King—a frightening suspense novel about a young girl who becomes lost in the woods as night falls.
- During a six-mile hike on the Maine-New Hampshire branch of the Appalachian Trail, nine-year-old Trisha McFarland quickly tires of the constant bickering between her older brother and her recently divorced mother. But when Trisha briefly wanders off by herself, she becomes lost in a wilderness maze full of peril and terror. As night falls, Trisha has only her ingenuity as a defense against the elements, and only her courage and faith to withstand her mounting fears. For solace, she tunes her headphones to broadcasts of Boston Red Sox baseball games and follows the gritty performances of her hero, relief pitcher Tom Gordon. And when the reception begins to fade, Trisha imagines that Tom Gordon is right there with her—the protector from an enemy who may or may not be imagined…one who is watching her, waiting for her in the dense, dark woods…
