BIBLIO is the largest independent book marketplace in the world, with over 100 million books.

Skip to content

Walk Me to the Distance
Stock photo: cover may vary

Walk Me to the Distance Paperback - 2015

by Percival Everett

Add to wish list

Reader reviews for Walk Me to the Distance

From the publisher

Vietnam veteran David Larson can't go home again. Instead the Georgia native wanders westward into the desolate landscape of Slut's Hole, Wyoming, and seeks to integrate himself amid a hardscrabble cast of memorable locals. David is taken in by Sixbury, a one-legged widow, sheep farmer, and mother to a nearly adult mentally handicapped son. This rough-hewn family unit is later augmented when David becomes the unwilling guardian to Butch, a Vietnamese girl abandoned at a highway rest stop. A tragic turn of events moves the novel into violent territory that bridges western laconic traditions with southern gothic and interrogates our notions of home, family, duty, and the always uncertain responsibilities of the individual in society.

First published in 1985, Walk Me to the Distance was Percival Everett's second novel, a hauntingly dark tragicomedy of the modern West, still clinging to a mythical heritage and code of frontier justice. With spare strokes Everett paints a telling landscape of big-sky country, where the mere act of living can be hard, cruel, and heart-stopping. This Southern Revivals edition includes a new introduction by the author and a contextualizing preface from series editor Robert H. Brinkmeyer, director of the University of South Carolina Institute for Southern Studies.

Details

  • Title Walk Me to the Distance
  • Author Percival Everett
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of South Carolina Press
  • Publication date 2015-02
  • ISBN 9781611175400 / 1611175402
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.8 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 2.03 cm)
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Veterans
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2015022526
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.54

About the author

Percival Everett is the author of more than twenty books, including the novels Percival Everett by Virgil Russell, Assumption, Erasure, I Am Not Sidney Poitier, The Water Cure, Wounded, and Glyph; three short story collections; and two volumes of poetry. Everett is the recipient of the Dos Passos Prize, the PEN Center USA Award for fiction, the Academy Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, the Believer Book Award, the Vallombrosa Von Rezzori Prize, the PEN/Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature, and the New American Writing Award. His stories have been included in the Pushcart Prize XXIII anthology and Best American Short Stories, and he has served as a judge for the National Book Award for fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. Everett is currently a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California.

More Copies for Sale

Walk Me to the Distance

Walk Me to the Distance

by Everett, Percival (Author)

  • Used
  • Good
  • Paperback
  • first
Condition
Good
Edition
First Thus
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9781611175400 / 1611175402
Quantity available
1
Seller
Item price
A$17.68
A$8.47 Delivery to USA

Show details

Description:
Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2015. First Thus. Softcover. Good/No Jacket. Used Book: Trade Paperback
Add to wish list
Item price
A$17.68
A$8.47 Delivery to USA
Walk Me to the Distance – A Novel
Stock photo: cover may vary

Walk Me to the Distance – A Novel

by Everett, Percival L.

  • New
  • Paperback
Condition
New
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9781611175400 / 1611175402
Quantity available
1
Seller
Item price
A$47.71
A$47.54 Delivery to USA

Show details

Description:
Univ of South Carolina Pr, 2015. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 209 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.75 inches.
Add to wish list
Item price
A$47.71
A$47.54 Delivery to USA
Walk Me to the Distance (Southern Revivals)
Stock photo: cover may vary

Walk Me to the Distance (Southern Revivals)

by Everett, Percival

  • Used
  • Good
  • Paperback
Condition
Good
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9781611175400 / 1611175402
Quantity available
1
Seller
Item price
A$76.29
Free Delivery to USA

Show details

Description:
paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.
Add to wish list
Item price
A$76.29
Free Delivery to USA