The Long Walk

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1979
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Authoritarian dystopia in which one hundred teenage boys participate in an annual ritual of walking until only one is left alive, most of the rest having been shot for infractions of the rules. 

Published Date

1979

Publisher
Signet
Place Published
New York
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1979 [King, Stephen Edwin] (b. 1947). The Long Walk. By Richard Bachman [pseud.]. New York: Signet. Rpt. in The Bachman Books: Four Early Novels by Stephen King. Rage The Long Walk Roadwork The Running Man (New York: New American Library, 1985), 133-322 with “Why I Was Bachman” (v-x); and separately New York: Signet, 1996 with “The Importance of Being Bachman” (v-xiii). MoU-St, PSt

Authoritarian dystopia in which one hundred teenage boys participate in an annual ritual of walking until only one is left alive, most of the rest having been shot for infractions of the rules.

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Rpt. in The Bachman Books: Four Early Novels by Stephen King. Rage, The Long Walk, Roadwork, The Running Man (New York: New American Library, 1985), 133-322 with "Why I Was Bachman" (v-x); and separately New York: Signet, 1996 with "The Importance of Being Bachman" (v-xiii).

Pseudonym

Richard Bachman [pseud.]

Author Note

(b. 1947)

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