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The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
by Stephen King
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0684867621
- ISBN 13
- 9780684867625
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Scribner, 1999. Like New. F/F. First edition. First printing with complete number line starting with 1. The book is tight and square with sharp corners and black and gray cloth boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, stamp, or markings and NOT BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($16.95) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 224 pages. 5¾ x 8½" tall.
Nine-year-old Trisha McFarland strays from the path while she and her recently divorced mother and brother take a hike along a branch of the Appalachian Trail. Lost for days, wandering farther and farther astray, Trisha has only her portable radio for comfort. A huge fan of Tom Gordon, a Boston Red Sox relief pitcher, she listens to baseball games and fantasizes that her hero will save her. Nature isn't her only adversary, though - something dangerous may be tracking Trisha through the dark woods.
Synopsis
In this novel from Stephen King, we meet Trisha McFarland, a plucky 9-year-old girl who gets lost while hiking with her brother and mom. We follow her as she goes from just a little nervous to terrified, running out of food and water, and aware of something dark tracking her through the woods. Rather different from his normal works, the focus of The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is not on supernatural elements, but more on the psychological battle to survive.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4535
- Title
- The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
- Author
- Stephen King
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0684867621
- ISBN 13
- 9780684867625
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
- Pages
- 224
- Size
- 5.75 x 8.5
- Keywords
- horror, fantasy, stephen king, tom gordon, red sox
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Edition;
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Armadillo Alley Books
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Carrollton, Texas
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