On the first day of May, 100 teenage boys meet for an event known throughout the country as The Long Walk.
This edition features an introduction by Stephen King on The Importance of Being Bachman..
A psychologically dark tale with commentary on society, teenage life, and cultural entertainment, The Long Walk is still poignant decades after its original publication ( Publishers Weekly ).
Three warnings and you\'re out--permanently.
Among them is sixteen-year-old Ray Garraty, and he knows the rules--keep a steady walKing pace of four miles per hour without stopping.
In the near future, when America has become a police state, one hundred boys are selected to enter an annual contest where the winner will be awarded whatever he wants for the rest of his life.
In this #1 national bestseller, master storyteller ( Houston Chronicle ) Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman, tells the tale of the contestants of a grueling walKing competition where there can only be one winner--the one that survives.
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If you exceed your limit, what happens is absolutely terrifying.
If you break the rules, you get three warnings.
On the first day of May, 100 teenage boys meet for an event known throughout the country as The Long Walk
