Nine-year-old Trisha is lost in the Maine woods after a family picnic goes terribly wrong. With only a dwindling water bottle and her Walkman for company, she must rely on her wits and the imagined presence of her baseball hero, Tom Gordon, to survive. This is a harrowing journey of a young girl facing the ultimate test against nature and her own fears.
Stephen King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author whose work has defined popular horror fiction for more than half a century. Born in Portland, Maine, he grew up in poverty after his father abandoned the family, and credits his mother's resilience and a voracious reading habit as the foundations of his imagination. He began selling short stories to men's magazines while working as a high school English teacher, and published his first novel, Carrie, in 1974—his wife Tabitha retrieved...