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The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

Stephen King
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contemporary fiction survival thriller past tense third limited POV ~253 pp
features extracted 2026-04-12

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claustrophobic desperate melancholic

A dark contemporary fiction. Expect minimal worldbuilding, dense, literary prose. Plot-driven and deeply introspective. Contains notable violence.

Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 40
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 25
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 10
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 90
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 85
externalintrospective
Ending 30
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 60
intimateepic

Content

Violence 60%
noneextreme
Sexual content 10%
noneexplicit
Humor 30%
seriouscomedic
Romance 10%
nonecentral

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count63,205
Page count~253 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVthird limited

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