Long walk
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Book Introduction
"Million Seller Club Volume 143.
The first novel written by world-renowned storyteller Stephen King.
Even though he is approaching his seventies, the author Stephen King, who consistently publishes more than two new works a year, shows off his experience. This is a full-length novel written and completed in 1966 when he was still a teenager. It was officially published in 1979 under the pen name Richard Bachman. (Stephen King's official debut work was published in 1974.)
The work is set in a fictional United States that has become a totalitarian state and is about boys who participate in the national sport, the 'Long Walk'.
The 'Long Walk' is a race where 100 teenage boys walk until only one remains.
However, if you go below the minimum speed limit (6.5 kilometers per hour), you will receive a warning, and after three warnings, you will be executed immediately.
Instead, the last survivor and winner will receive the ultimate reward.
It became a hot topic at the time of its publication as a symbolic work that shows the image of a dictatorship that has lost even its free will through the military that shoots without any emotion at the stragglers of boys and the foolish citizens who are enthusiastic about the sight. It is a work that contains the thoughts of 18-year-old Stephen King as he looked at American society in 1966, when volunteer enlistments and anti-war protests were swirling due to the Vietnam War.
The work's thematic awareness and appeal led to it being selected as one of the 100 Best Books for Young Adults (1966-2000) by the American Library Association (ALA), and it had a huge influence on later dystopian young adult novels such as .
It was published in Korea as a pirated version over 20 years ago before an official translation was published."
The first novel written by world-renowned storyteller Stephen King.
Even though he is approaching his seventies, the author Stephen King, who consistently publishes more than two new works a year, shows off his experience. This is a full-length novel written and completed in 1966 when he was still a teenager. It was officially published in 1979 under the pen name Richard Bachman. (Stephen King's official debut work was published in 1974.)
The work is set in a fictional United States that has become a totalitarian state and is about boys who participate in the national sport, the 'Long Walk'.
The 'Long Walk' is a race where 100 teenage boys walk until only one remains.
However, if you go below the minimum speed limit (6.5 kilometers per hour), you will receive a warning, and after three warnings, you will be executed immediately.
Instead, the last survivor and winner will receive the ultimate reward.
It became a hot topic at the time of its publication as a symbolic work that shows the image of a dictatorship that has lost even its free will through the military that shoots without any emotion at the stragglers of boys and the foolish citizens who are enthusiastic about the sight. It is a work that contains the thoughts of 18-year-old Stephen King as he looked at American society in 1966, when volunteer enlistments and anti-war protests were swirling due to the Vietnam War.
The work's thematic awareness and appeal led to it being selected as one of the 100 Best Books for Young Adults (1966-2000) by the American Library Association (ALA), and it had a huge influence on later dystopian young adult novels such as .
It was published in Korea as a pirated version over 20 years ago before an official translation was published."
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index
"Stephen King's Foreword: The Importance of Being a Bachman 7
Part 1 Departure 21
Walking along the road, part 2, 71
Part 3 Rabbit 415"
Part 1 Departure 21
Walking along the road, part 2, 71
Part 3 Rabbit 415"
Publisher's Review
A rough but powerful coming-of-age novel by Stephen King
"There is no great evil lurking in the dark, no great ups and downs in the narrative, and no solution falling from the sky.
As the Guardian review states, "The Long Walk is a book that begins with 100 characters and slowly, but surely, reduces to one." This work leads readers to the end with only the description of the process of the children participating in the Long Walk being eliminated and the psychology that follows, without any special twists or new events.
"The Long Walk" depicts in detail the appearance, changes, and conversations of the children who participated over several days, from start to finish.
Although everyone participates with different motivations and rewards, most initially have a sense of pride that they will win.
But as time passes and casualties mount, the race reveals itself to be not only more daunting and deadly than they had imagined, but also that even those who cheered and cheered were actually there to witness their elimination.
In the end, amidst agony and conflict, the boys each choose their own ending.
Some boys rebel by snatching the guns of soldiers who are chasing them and watching them, and some end up dying, while others attempt to escape.
Sometimes, the boys join forces and put on a performance mocking the dictator.
But as time goes by, those who protected and helped each other in difficult times eventually become frustrated by the rule that they cannot help but become enemies, and they struggle to survive in their own way.
Stephen King describes this entire process in astonishing detail, using it as a metaphor for the Vietnam War, a major issue of the time, and the national movement of those who participated in it without knowing why and ended up dying.
"I hope these early books show some progress in Bachmann's persona.
And I hope it shows the essence of that persona." - Stephen King, from the foreword
"There is no great evil lurking in the dark, no great ups and downs in the narrative, and no solution falling from the sky.
As the Guardian review states, "The Long Walk is a book that begins with 100 characters and slowly, but surely, reduces to one." This work leads readers to the end with only the description of the process of the children participating in the Long Walk being eliminated and the psychology that follows, without any special twists or new events.
"The Long Walk" depicts in detail the appearance, changes, and conversations of the children who participated over several days, from start to finish.
Although everyone participates with different motivations and rewards, most initially have a sense of pride that they will win.
But as time passes and casualties mount, the race reveals itself to be not only more daunting and deadly than they had imagined, but also that even those who cheered and cheered were actually there to witness their elimination.
In the end, amidst agony and conflict, the boys each choose their own ending.
Some boys rebel by snatching the guns of soldiers who are chasing them and watching them, and some end up dying, while others attempt to escape.
Sometimes, the boys join forces and put on a performance mocking the dictator.
But as time goes by, those who protected and helped each other in difficult times eventually become frustrated by the rule that they cannot help but become enemies, and they struggle to survive in their own way.
Stephen King describes this entire process in astonishing detail, using it as a metaphor for the Vietnam War, a major issue of the time, and the national movement of those who participated in it without knowing why and ended up dying.
"I hope these early books show some progress in Bachmann's persona.
And I hope it shows the essence of that persona." - Stephen King, from the foreword
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Publication date: November 10, 2015
- Page count, weight, size: 440 pages | 586g | 153*224*26mm
- ISBN13: 9791158880262
- ISBN10: 115888026X
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