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The Long Walk. The Long Walk is a dystopian horror novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1979, under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. It was collected in 1985 in the hardcover omnibus The Bachman Books, and has seen several reprints since, as both paperback and hardback. In 2023, Centipede Press released the first stand-alone ...
- Stephen King
- 1979
Dec 1, 1978 · The Long Walk takes place in a slightly different reality, where Germany had a nuclear reactor in Santiago in 1953, and where the Major runs a spectacle ever year, The Long Walk. The Long Walk seems like an ancestor of The Hunger Games in some ways, although the Long Walk seems to be voluntary. Unlike the Hunger Games, this book is pretty brutal.
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- Richard Bachman, Stephen King
Dec 4, 2010 · The story was The Long Walk, a gripping account of a Polish officer's imprisonment in the Soviet gulag in 1940, his escape and then a trek of 4,000 miles (6,437km) from Siberia to India, surviving ...
Apr 1, 2016 · [The Long Walk] must be read—and reread, and passed along to friends.”—National Geographic Adventure “The ultimate human endurance story…told with clarity, vivid description, and a good dash of romance and humor.”—The Vancouver Sun "The Long Walk is a book that I absolutely could not put down and one that I will never forget ...
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- Slavomir Rawicz
- Slavomir Rawicz
Dec 2, 2023 · The Long Walk, a 1979 novel by Stephen King under his pseudonym Richard Bachman, is getting a feature film adaptation by Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence. The novel is set in a future where Americans walk along a highway for entertainment and face deadly consequences.
- Dalton Norman
- Author
A futuristic America hosts a deadly 450-mile walking contest where only one winner can survive. The novel explores the themes of violence, conformity, and rebellion in a totalitarian society.
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The Long Walk is the seventh book published by Stephen King; it is his sixth novel, and the second written under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman. It was first published in July 1979 and collected in the 1985 anthology, The Bachman Books. In an alternate United States (references to "April 31st", "fifty-one" states, "Popular Mechanix", and "the German air-blitz of the American East Coast" are ...
