The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
by:
Stephen King (author)
"The world had teeth and it could bite you with them any time it wanted. Trisha McFarland discovered this when she was nine years old. At ten o'clock on a morning in early June she was sitting in the back seat of her mother's Dodge Caravan, wearing her blue Red Sox batting practice jersey (the...
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"The world had teeth and it could bite you with them any time it wanted. Trisha McFarland discovered this when she was nine years old. At ten o'clock on a morning in early June she was sitting in the back seat of her mother's Dodge Caravan, wearing her blue Red Sox batting practice jersey (the one with 36 GORDON on the back) and playing with Mona, her doll. At ten thirty she was lost in the woods. By eleven she was trying not to be terrified, trying not to let herself think, This is serious, this is very serious. Trying not to think that sometimes when people got lost in the woods they got seriously hurt. Sometimes they died."
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źródło okładki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_Who_Loved_Tom_Gordon
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Format: papier
ISBN:
0684867621
Publisher: Scribner
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
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