Walk Me to the Distance (Paperback)
by Percival Everett
Description
Now with a brilliant new package, a re-issue of the sophomore novel by Percival Everett.
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Haunting, provocative and bleakly funny, Walk Me to the Distance is Percival Everett’s brilliant reexamination of the Western, and a laconic tragicomedy about what it takes to survive in the last days of a bygone big-sky country.
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In self-imposed exile after returning home from the war in Vietnam, David Larson meanders into the barren town of Slut’s Hole, Wyoming, where a local widow takes him under her wing. After making a sort of home among the town’s hardscrabble locals, David grudgingly adopts a young Vietnamese girl abandoned along the highway. This sets in motion a number of tragic turns as Western mythos and frontier justice clash against the tides of a changing world.
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First published in 1985 by Clarion Books, Walk Me to the Distance was the sophomore novel of an iconic American voice.
About the Author
Percival Everett is a Distinguished Professor of English at USC and bestselling author. Over the course of his five decade career, Everett has written over twenty five books and been shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, twice longlisted for the Booker Prize, and the recipient of the 2024 National Book Award.
Product Details
Category: Fiction
Language: English
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: New
ISBN-10:
ISBN-13: 979-8217008483
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: October 21, 2025
Pages: 224
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