Publishers Weekly, April 5th, 1999
Stephen King. Scribner, $16.95 (224p) ISBN 0-684-86762-1
"The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted." King's new novel-which begins with that sentence- has teeth, too, and it bites hard. Readers will bite right back. Always one to go for the throat, King crafts a story that concerns not just anyone lost in the Maine-New Hampshire woods, but a plucky nine-yearold girl, and from a broken home, no less. This stacked deck is flush with aces, however. King has always excelled at writing about children, and Trisha McFarland, dressed in jeans and a Red Sox jersey and ca...
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