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The Long Walk - Paperback
$17.49
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The Long Walk
$17.49
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Is this book for you?
- Feels
- Bleak, Tense, Melancholy
- Kind of story
- Dystopian, Psychological horror
- About
- Survival, Friendship, Coming of age, Power
- Pace
- Steady
- How dark
- 4 of 5. Very dark, some graphic scenes
- Romance
- None to speak of
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Featured in our reading guide: Watched The Long Walk? Read the Stephen King Novel, Then These
One hundred boys start walking. If they slow down three times, they're shot. The last one walking wins.
Every year, a hundred teenagers enter the Long Walk, a national contest in a dystopian America. Ray Garraty is one of them, and the book follows the walk from the first mile to the last.
Originally published under King's pseudonym Richard Bachman. This is the lower-priced paperback edition.
Reader note: Contains graphic violence.
Details
- Author: Stephen King
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781501144264
Praise
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I count this book as among King's finest works... Scary; threatening and unsettling.
The Guardian
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It still resonates... Intense and harrowing.
Vanity Fair
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Under any name, King mesmerizes the reader.
Chicago Sun-Times
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No one does psychological terror better!
Kirkus Reviews
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