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The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

2000270 pagesPocket Books

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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.

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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...

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TrishaProtagonist
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