Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and an AT&T Audience Network original television series). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower and It are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.
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.
YA-Tired of the continual bickering between her mother and her older brother, nine-year-old Trisha lags behind them on the Appalachian Trail, leaves the path to go to the bathroom, takes a shortcut, and is promptly lost. She follows a stream searching for other people or a road, but unknowingly hikes further and further away from civilization. Her time alone is spent searching for food, mulling over her parents' divorce, and listening to Red Sox games on her Walkman radio. Relief pitcher for the Sox, Tom Gordon, becomes her imaginary companion and provides the comfort she needs to overcome her fears and loneliness so that she can concentrate on staying alive. One feels Trisha's terror as she endures drenching thunderstorms, tromps through mud-sucking swamps, sees gutted deer carcasses, and falls down rocky slopes. Will she survive? Readers aren't sure and the tension builds as hunger and weakness wear her down. Excitement, fear, and anxiety, coupled with vivid descriptions of the Maine-New Hampshire forests alongside the normalcy of listening to play-by-play baseball games, add up to a top-notch read.-Pam Spencer, Young Adult Literature Specialist, Virginia Beach, VA Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.
While hiking a six-mile stretch of the Appalachian Trail with her mother and brother, nine-year-old Trisha McFarland steps off the path to relieve herself and then attempts a shortcut to catch up. With this unfortunate decision, she becomes lost and alone in the Maine woods for over a week, with limited food and water and what becomes her prize possession, a personal stereo. Trisha uses the radio to follow the play of her beloved Tom Gordon, relief pitcher for the Boston Red Sox--a calming link to the civilized world and one she uses to gather courage and strength for her ordeal. In a near-perfect characterization on King's part, we experience Trisha's fears, hopes, pains, hallucinations, and triumphs through her internal monolog, which is animated in this program by the voice of actress Anne Heche. She flawlessly conveys Trisha's youth and the spectrum of her emotional states. Recommended without reservation.--Kristen L. Smith, Loras Coll. Lib., Dubuque, IA Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.
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.
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