Hardcover UK, first printing and first world edition. (Preceded the US edition published by Scribners.) Very fine (unread) copy in very fine jacket. Not a book club, remainder or ex-library copy. King's peculiar and affecting blend of baseball nostalgia, fantasy and horror. "Brutal, intensely suspenseful and aswarm with genuine emotion, the novel weaves backwoods terror, baseball, questions of faith and the travails of a heartbreakingly gutsy heroine into an exhilarating affirmation of the human spirit." - Publisher's Weekly. Award History: Publisher's Weekly Best of 1999 List.