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T.M. Wright, The Place
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Wright ( The Playground ; The Island ) offers another hallucinatory, episodic, almost plotless story in this novel about bright, self-possessed eight-year-old Greta King, whose daydreams transport her to an idyllic fantasy world. While out for a drive, Greta's father, mother and younger brother are threatened by a madman with a rifle; Greta, meanwhile, is worried when she arrives at an empty home. While she waits at a neighbor's, Greta's father unwittingly tips off the psychopath to her wherabouts. The demented creature sees in Greta a kindred spirit: he too has a dreamworld, blood-red and foul, and it exists at the edges of Greta's blue and lovely one. The man wishes to take Greta into his world--and somewhere between the two is the mysterious place where Greta's mother and brother have been hidden. This eerie, teasing tale, unfolding in dreamlike fashion, clearly depicts Greta's confusion, vulnerability and easy victimization by thoughtless adults.
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Tor Horror / Tom Doherty Associates, New York, 1990
ISBN 10: 0812502949
ISBN 13: 9780812502947
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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. cover art by Hector Garrido (illustrator). New York: Tor Horror / Tom Doherty Associates 1990 First Mass Market Paperback Edition This copy has been signed by the author on the title page. A Horror novel: "A child's fantasy world is the key to her family's salvation". 278 pages. A very good copy with a hole punched to top front cover at H of authors name, light wear and readers creasing to the spine. See Photos Sr 2/8 First Mass Market paperback edition, first printing. Seller Inventory # 868641
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Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Seller Inventory # Q22A-05976