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The Long Walk
Publication: New York: Signet / New American Library / Times Mirror, 1979. First Edition.
Notes: A recently filmed novel set in a dystopian America where each year 100 men are forced to walk at a steady four miles per hour; if they slacken their pace, they are shot.
According to King's essay, Why I Was Bachman, this is one of the two good novels (the other is Rage) he wrote before Carrie. He started Rage in high school; this is the first novel he finished, in 1967, when he was a college freshman.
[10], 245, [1:blank] pages. Signet J8754. Cover price of $1.95.
Edition + Condition: First edition (first and only printing with a numberline ending in 1). Not quite very good, with creasing and small chips to the edges, a small surface scar on the rear cover, and some fading to the red covers.
ISBN: 0451087542
Item No: #366224
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