![]() Sounds like all fun and games, right? Wrong. ![]() If a walker falls below 4 mph, they are given a warning and after their third warning, they are out of the competition. The event, called The Long Walk, begins in northern Maine and goes on until only one boy is left walking, several days later. The novel is focused on an annual event where 100 boys under the age of 18 walk as far as they can without stopping. The full essay can here read here on Lilja’s Library. It was written by Stephen King but published under his pseudonym Richard Bachman. In King’s essay “The Importance of Being Bachman” he says “Bachman, a fictional charter who became more real to me with each published book which bore his byline, was a rainy-day sort of guy if there ever was one.” The Bachman essay was place at the beginning of my copy of The Long Walk and interested me very much. ![]() The Long Walk was published by Signet Books in 1979. ![]()
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