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| stephen king the long walk: The Long Walk Stephen King, 2016-04-19 In this #1 national bestseller, master storyteller 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. Against the wishes of his mother, sixteen-year-old Ray Garraty is about to compete in the annual grueling match of stamina and wits known as the Long Walk. One hundred boys must keep a steady pace of four miles per hour without ever stopping...with the winner being awarded “The Prize”—anything he wants for the rest of his life. But, as part of this national tournament that sweeps through a dystopian America year after year, there are some harsh rules that Garraty and ninety-nine others must adhere to in order to beat out the rest. There is no finish line—the winner is the last man standing. Contestants cannot receive any outside aid whatsoever. Slow down under the speed limit and you’re given a warning. Three warnings and you’re out of the game—permanently... |
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| stephen king the long walk: The Long Walk Stephen King, 2016-01-01 In this #1 national bestseller, master storyteller 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. Against the wishes of his mother, sixteen-year-old Ray Garraty is about to compete in the annual grueling match of stamina and wits known as the Long Walk. One hundred boys must keep a steady pace of four miles per hour without ever stopping...with the winner being awarded “The Prize”—anything he wants for the rest of his life. But, as part of this national tournament that sweeps through a dystopian America year after year, there are some harsh rules that Garraty and ninety-nine others must adhere to in order to beat out the rest. There is no finish line—the winner is the last man standing. Contestants cannot receive any outside aid whatsoever. Slow down under the speed limit and you’re given a warning. Three warnings and you’re out of the game—permanently... |
| stephen king the long walk: Burden Falls Kat Ellis, 2021-08-24 Riverdale meets The Haunting of Hill House in the terrifying new thriller from the author of Harrow Lake. Cinematic, clever, and creepy, with a main character that leaps off the page, Burden Falls ticks off all my moody thriller boxes. —Goldy Moldavsky, New York Times bestselling author of The Mary Shelley Club and Kill the Boy Band The town of Burden Falls drips with superstition, from rumors of its cursed waterfall to Dead-Eyed Sadie, the disturbing specter who haunts it. Ava Thorn grew up right beside the falls, and since a horrific accident killed her parents a year ago, she's been plagued by nightmares in which Sadie comes calling—nightmares so chilling, Ava feels as if she’ll never wake up. But when someone close to Ava is brutally murdered and she’s the primary suspect, she begins to wonder if the stories might be more than legends—and if the ghost haunting her dreams might be terrifyingly real. Whatever secrets Burden Falls is hiding, there's a killer on the loose . . . with a vendetta against the Thorns. Reads like a horror blockbuster in the best way possible. —PopSugar Superb. —BCCB A great scary story with an even mix of heart and blood. —SLJ Gritty...Spine-tingling...Twisty. —Kirkus |
| stephen king the long walk: Thinner Stephen King, 2016-03-08 The 'extraordinary' (Booklist) novel of one man's quest to find the source of his nightmare and to reverse it before he becomes...nothing at all. This #1 national bestseller from Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman, pulsates with evil...it will have you on the edge of your seat (Publishers Weekly)-- |
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| stephen king the long walk: The Stand Stephen King, 2008-06-24 #1 BESTSELLER • The apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and tangled in an elemental struggle between good and evil remains as riveting—and eerily plausible—as when it was first published. • The tie-in edition of the nine-part CBS All Access series starring Whoopi Goldberg, Alexander Skarsgard, and James Marsden. A patient escapes from a biological testing facility, unknowingly carrying a deadly weapon: a mutated strain of super-flu that will wipe out 99 percent of the world’s population within a few weeks. Those who remain are scared, bewildered, and in need of a leader. Two emerge—Mother Abagail, the benevolent 108-year-old woman who urges them to build a peaceful community in Boulder, Colorado; and Randall Flagg, the nefarious “Dark Man,” who delights in chaos and violence. As the dark man and the peaceful woman gather power, the survivors will have to choose between them—and ultimately decide the fate of all humanity. |
| stephen king the long walk: The Running Man Stephen King, Richard Bachman, 1999 Welcome to America in 2025 when the best men don't run for president. They run for thier lives--in the ultimate death game. |
| stephen king the long walk: Roadwork Stephen King, 2025-04-29 Only Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman, can imagine the horror of a good and angry man who fights back against bureaucracy when it threatens to destroy his vitality, home, and memories. “Under any name King mesmerizes the reader” (Chicago Sun-Times). It’s all coming to an end for Barton Dawes. The city’s Highway 784 extension is in the process of being constructed right across town and inexorably through every aspect of Bart’s existence—whether it’s about to barrel over the laundry plant where he makes a living, or soon to smash through the very home where he makes a life. But as a result, something’s been happening inside Bart’s head that a heartless local bureaucracy isn’t prepared for—a complete and irrevocable burnout of the mental circuit breaker that keeps a mild-mannered person from turning to violent means. As the wheels of progress and a demolition crew continue unabated throughout Bart’s neighborhood, he’s not about to give everything up without a fight. As a matter of fact, he’s ready and waiting to ignite an explosive confrontation with the legislative forces gathered against him… |
| stephen king the long walk: The Mist Stephen King, 2017-05-23 #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King’s terrifying novella about a town engulfed in a dense, mysterious mist as humanity makes its last stand against unholy destruction—originally published in the acclaimed short story collection Skeleton Crew and made into a TV series, as well as a feature film starring Thomas Jane and Marcia Gay Harden. In the wake of a summer storm, terror descends...David Drayton, his son Billy, and their neighbor Brent Norton join dozens of others and head to the local grocery store to replenish supplies following a freak storm. Once there, they become trapped by a strange mist that has enveloped the town. As the confinement takes its toll on their nerves, a religious zealot, Mrs. Carmody, begins to play on their fears to convince them that this is God’s vengeance for their sins. She insists a sacrifice must be made and two groups—those for and those against—are aligned. Clearly, staying in the store may prove fatal, and the Draytons, along with store employee Ollie Weeks, Amanda Dumfries, Irene Reppler, and Dan Miller, attempt to make their escape. But what’s out there may be worse than what they left behind. This exhilarating novella explores the horror in both the enemy you know—and the one you can only imagine. |
| stephen king the long walk: Later Stephen King, 2021-03-02 “Part detective tale, part thriller…touching and genuine.” —The New York Times #1 bestselling author Stephen King returns with a brand-new novel about the secrets we keep buried and the cost of unearthing them. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SOMETIMES GROWING UP MEANS FACING YOUR DEMONS The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine – as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave. LATER is Stephen King at his finest, a terrifying and touching story of innocence lost and the trials that test our sense of right and wrong. With echoes of King’s classic novel It, LATER is a powerful, haunting, unforgettable exploration of what it takes to stand up to evil in all the faces it wears. |
| stephen king the long walk: The Future Is Yours Dan Frey, 2021-02-09 Two best friends create a computer that can predict the future. But what they can’t predict is how it will tear their friendship—and society—apart. “A fantastic page-turner and a future classic.”—Peter Clines, New York Times bestselling author of Paradox Bound IN DEVELOPMENT AS AN HBO MAX ORIGINAL SERIES If you had the chance to look one year into the future, would you? For Ben Boyce and Adhi Chaudry, the answer is unequivocally yes. And they’re betting everything that you’ll say yes, too. Welcome to The Future: a computer that connects to the internet one year from now, so you can see who you’ll be dating, where you’ll be working, even whether or not you’ll be alive in the year to come. By forming a startup to deliver this revolutionary technology to the world, Ben and Adhi have made their wildest, most impossible dream a reality. Once Silicon Valley outsiders, they’re now its hottest commodity. The device can predict everything perfectly—from stock market spikes and sports scores to political scandals and corporate takeovers—allowing them to chase down success and fame while staying one step ahead of the competition. But the future their device foretells is not the bright one they imagined. Ambition. Greed. Jealousy. And, perhaps, an apocalypse. The question is . . . can they stop it? Told through emails, texts, transcripts, and blog posts, this bleeding-edge tech thriller chronicles the costs of innovation and asks how far you’d go to protect the ones you love—even from themselves. |
| stephen king the long walk: The Long Walk Slavomir Rawicz, 2016 The harrowing true tale of seven escaped Soviet prisoners who desperately marched out of Siberia through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India. |
| stephen king the long walk: The Long Walk Stephen King, 2024-08-20 In this #1 national bestseller, master storyteller 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. Against the wishes of his mother, sixteen-year-old Ray Garraty is about to compete in the annual grueling match of stamina and wits known as the Long Walk. One hundred boys must keep a steady pace of four miles per hour without ever stopping...with the winner being awarded “The Prize”—anything he wants for the rest of his life. But, as part of this national tournament that sweeps through a dystopian America year after year, there are some harsh rules that Garraty and ninety-nine others must adhere to in order to beat out the rest. There is no finish line—the winner is the last man standing. Contestants cannot receive any outside aid whatsoever. Slow down under the speed limit and you’re given a warning. Three warnings and you’re out of the game—permanently... |
| stephen king the long walk: Dolores Claiborne Stephen King, 2016-05-03 Suspected of killing Vera Donovan, her wealthy employer, Dolores Claiborne tells police the story of her life, harkening back to her violent husband, disintegrating marriage and the suspicious death of Joe Claiborne thirty years earlier. Dolores also tells of Vera's physical and mental decline and of her loyalty to an employer who has become emotionally demanding in recent years. |
| stephen king the long walk: Ready Player One Ernest Cline, 2011-08-16 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg. “Enchanting . . . Willy Wonka meets The Matrix.”—USA Today • “As one adventure leads expertly to the next, time simply evaporates.”—Entertainment Weekly A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready? In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the OASIS, a vast virtual world where most of humanity spends their days. When the eccentric creator of the OASIS dies, he leaves behind a series of fiendish puzzles, based on his obsession with the pop culture of decades past. Whoever is first to solve them will inherit his vast fortune—and control of the OASIS itself. Then Wade cracks the first clue. Suddenly he’s beset by rivals who’ll kill to take this prize. The race is on—and the only way to survive is to win. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Entertainment Weekly • San Francisco Chronicle • Village Voice • Chicago Sun-Times • iO9 • The AV Club “Delightful . . . the grown-up’s Harry Potter.”—HuffPost “An addictive read . . . part intergalactic scavenger hunt, part romance, and all heart.”—CNN “A most excellent ride . . . Cline stuffs his novel with a cornucopia of pop culture, as if to wink to the reader.”—Boston Globe “Ridiculously fun and large-hearted . . . Cline is that rare writer who can translate his own dorky enthusiasms into prose that’s both hilarious and compassionate.”—NPR “[A] fantastic page-turner . . . starts out like a simple bit of fun and winds up feeling like a rich and plausible picture of future friendships in a world not too distant from our own.”—iO9 |
| stephen king the long walk: The Dark at the End of the Tunnel Taylor Grant, 2015-11-09 Offered for the first time in a collected format, this selection features ten gripping and darkly imaginative stories by Taylor Grant, a Bram Stoker Award (R) nominated author and rising star in the suspense and horror genres. Discover what happens when: - A wealthy industrialist awakens after ten years in suspended animation, and finds out that the horrors of the past can never be left behind. - A lonely man realizes that he's gradually vanishing from existence, into a nightmarish limbo of his own making. - An author stumbles upon an incomplete manuscript by his deceased father, and makes the grave mistake of trying to complete the story. - A woman learns that the imaginary voices that haunt the delusional and criminally insane are, in fact, real. This remarkable collection of short fiction exposes the terrors that hide beneath the surface of our ordinary world, behind people's masks of normalcy, and lurking in the shadows at the farthest reaches of the universe. A master class in storytelling...one of the best collections of the last ten years. - Joe McKinney, Bram Stoker Award Winner, Dead City, The Dead Won't Die ... so full of talent and commitment, that it is an inspiration. - Dennis Etchison, Two-time World Fantasy Award Winner, The Dark Country A bold and unsettling new voice in suspense and horror. - Scott Nicholson, Bestselling thriller author, The Red Church ... a cornucopia of horror from a master of the genre - Tim Waggoner, Eat The Night, The Way of All Flesh ...written with the precise-concise language of a poet. Each story has an almost perfect closure.... - Gene O'Neill, Bram Stoker Award Winner, The Cal Wild Chronicles, The Hitchhiking Effect Grant is a writer who never fails to engage. Frankly, his stories frighten me... - Christopher Ransom, International Bestselling Author, The Birthing House, The Fading ...beautifully crafted tales... a depth and humanity of which we all can relate. - John Claude Smith, Riding the Centipede, Autumn in the Abyss As classic, elegant, deadly effective and efficient as a switchblade. - John Palisano, Bram Stoker Award Finalist, Dust of the Dead, Nerves A master at balancing pure dread, raw untethered emotion, and brilliant characters. - Robert S. Wilson, Bram Stoker Award nominated editor, author of Empire of Blood series. Grant picks away at your worst fears...the bogeyman finally has a name... - David Owain Hughes, Walled In, White Walls and Straightjackets |
| stephen king the long walk: Home Marilynne Robinson, 2009-09-22 Glory Boughton has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. soon her brother, Jack—the prodigal son of the family, gone for twenty years—comes home too, looking for refuge and trying to make peace with a past littered with torment and pain. A troubled boy from childhood, an alcoholic who cannot hold a job, Jack is one of the great characters in recent literature. He is perpetually at odds with his surroundings and with his traditionalist father, though he remains Reverend Boughton’s most beloved child. Brilliant, beguiling, lovable and wayward, Jack forges an intense new bond with Glory and engages painfully with John Ames, his godfather and namesake. Home is a moving and healing book about families, family secrets and the passing of the generations, about love and death and faith. It is arguably Marilynne Robinson’s greatest work, an unforgettable embodiment of the deepest and most universal emotions. |
| stephen king the long walk: End of the Road Brian Keene, 2020-11-09 My name is Brian Keene. I'm a writer by trade and a road warrior by heart. Neither of these things are wise career or life choices. The tolls add up.Over the last twenty years, things have changed. Book tours have changed, publishing has changed, bookselling has changed, conventions have changed, horror fiction-and the horror genre-have changed. I've changed, too.The only things that haven't changed are writing and the road. They stay the same. The words we type today are the past tomorrow. Everything is connected like the highways on a map are connected. This holds true for the history of our genre, as well.I rode into town twenty years ago. Now I'm riding out. You're all coming with me...So begins Brian Keene's End of the Road-a memoir, travelogue, and post-Danse Macabre examination of modern horror fiction, the people who write it, and the world they live-and die-in. Exhilarating, emotional, heartfelt, and at times hilarious, End of the Road is a must-read for fans of the horror genre. Introduction by Gabino Iglesias. |
| stephen king the long walk: The Body Stephen King, Robin Waterfield, 2008 Contemporary / British English Gordie Lanchance and his three friends are always ready for adventure. When they hear about a dead body in the forest they go to look for it. Then they discover how cruel the world can be. |
| stephen king the long walk: Curses Lish McBride, 2024-09-10 Now in paperback, this YA fantasy is a gender-flipped take on 'Beauty and the Beast' brimming with magic and sharp humor. A unique and twisty magical romp! —Tamora Pierce, New York Times bestselling author Curses is the 'Beauty and the Beast' retelling I've been waiting for. —Marissa Meyer, #1 New York Times bestselling author Merit Cravan refused to fulfill her obligation to marry a prince, leading to a fairy godling's curse. She will be forced to live as a beast forever, unless she agrees to marry a man of her mother's choosing before her eighteenth birthday. Tevin Dumont has always been a pawn in his family's cons. The prettiest boy in a big family, his job is to tempt naïve rich girls to abandon their engagements, unless their parents agree to pay him off. But after his mother runs afoul of the beast, she decides to trade Tevin for her own freedom. Now, Tevin and Merit have agreed that he can pay off his mother's debt by using his con-artist skills to help Merit find the best match . . . but what if the best match is Tevin himself? |
| stephen king the long walk: A Long Walk to Water Linda Sue Park, 2010 The New York Times bestseller A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan, a girl in 2008 and a boy in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours' walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes one of the lost boys of Sudan, refugees who cover the African continent on foot as they search for their families and for a safe place to stay. Enduring every hardship from loneliness to attack by armed rebels to contact with killer lions and crocodiles, Salva is a survivor, and his story goes on to intersect with Nya's in an astonishing and moving way. |
| stephen king the long walk: HEX Thomas Olde Heuvelt, 2016-04-26 Originally published as Hex in 2013 by Luitingh-Sijthoff in Amsterdam--Colophon. |
| stephen king the long walk: Gonzo Hunter S. Thompson, Ben Corbett, 2009 A visual biography of writer Hunter S. Thompson, creator of the gonzo style of journalism, with photographs and excerpts from Thompson's writings. |
| stephen king the long walk: The Beach of Falesá Robert Louis Stevenson, 2019-07-16 Complete and unabridged paperback edition. The Beach of Falesá is a short story by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. It was written after Stevenson moved to the South Seas island of Samoa just a few years before he died there. Description from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. |
| stephen king the long walk: Blockade Billy Stephen King, 2010-05-25 Contains the chilling bonus story 'Morality'--Cover. |
| stephen king the long walk: The Way of Kings Brandon Sanderson, 2014-03-04 A new epic fantasy series from the New York Times bestselling author chosen to complete Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time® Series |
| stephen king the long walk: Desperation, the Regulators Stephen King, 1996 |
| stephen king the long walk: The Long Walk Brian Castner, 2012-07-10 In the tradition of Michael Herr’s Dispatches and works by such masters of the memoir as Mary Karr and Tobias Wolff, a powerful account of war and homecoming. Brian Castner served three tours of duty in the Middle East, two of them as the commander of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit in Iraq. Days and nights he and his team—his brothers—would venture forth in heavily armed convoys from their Forward Operating Base to engage in the nerve-racking yet strangely exhilarating work of either disarming the deadly improvised explosive devices that had been discovered, or picking up the pieces when the alert came too late. They relied on an army of remote-controlled cameras and robots, but if that technology failed, a technician would have to don the eighty-pound Kevlar suit, take the Long Walk up to the bomb, and disarm it by hand. This lethal game of cat and mouse was, and continues to be, the real war within America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But The Long Walk is not just about battle itself. It is also an unflinching portrayal of the toll war exacts on the men and women who are fighting it. When Castner returned home to his wife and family, he began a struggle with a no less insidious foe, an unshakable feeling of fear and confusion and survivor’s guilt that he terms The Crazy. His thrilling, heartbreaking, stunningly honest book immerses the reader in two harrowing and simultaneous realities: the terror and excitement and camaraderie of combat, and the lonely battle against the enemy within—the haunting memories that will not fade, the survival instincts that will not switch off. After enduring what he has endured, can there ever again be such a thing as “normal”? The Long Walk will hook you from the very first sentence, and it will stay with you long after its final gripping page has been turned. |
| stephen king the long walk: The Memory of Running Ron McLarty, 2005-12-27 Smithy is an American original, worthy of a place on the shelf just below your Hucks, your Holdens, your Yossarians. —Stephen King Every so often, a novel comes along that captures the public’s imagination with a story that sweeps readers up and takes them on a thrilling, unforgettable ride. Ron McLarty’s The Memory of Running is this decade’s novel. By all accounts, especially his own, Smithson Smithy Ide is a loser. An overweight, friendless, chain-smoking, forty-three-year-old drunk, Smithy’s life becomes completely unhinged when he loses his parents and long-lost sister within the span of one week. Rolling down the driveway of his parents’ house in Rhode Island on his old Raleigh bicycle to escape his grief, the emotionally bereft Smithy embarks on an epic, hilarious, luminous, and extraordinary journey of discovery and redemption. |
| stephen king the long walk: Under the Dome: Part 2 Stephen King, 2014-03-25 The conclusion to King's tale of Chester's Mill, Maine, a town that's inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field, and which inspired a CBS TV drama. |
| stephen king the long walk: Stephen King and American Politics Michael J. Blouin, 2021-01-01 This is the very first study dedicated exclusively to politics in Stephen King’s fiction. It is a window into the turbulent political climate of the U.S. today (via popular culture). It is an exciting conversation between major political theorists and America’s most popular purveyor of horror |
| stephen king the long walk: Shining in the Dark Hans-Åke Lilja, 2019-10-22 From the founder of the #1 Stephen King news website Lilja’s Library comes a terrifying and deliciously creepy anthology of horror stories, including a rare story from Stephen King himself, classics by Clive Barker and Edgar Allan Poe, and a novella by John Ajvide Lindqvist (Let the Right One In). Celebrating twenty years of the expansive Stephen King fan site Lilja’s Library, this creepy collection of stories is perfect for horror fans of all backgrounds. With a terrifying story that has never been previously included in any of Stephen King’s collections, Shining in the Dark is an unforgettable anthology, featuring short stories by some of the genre’s best-known and most talented authors. Stories include: “The Blue Air Compressor” by Stephen King “The Net” by Jack Ketchum and P. D. Cacek “The Novel of the Holocaust” by Stewart O’Nan “Aeliana” by Bev Vincent “Pidgin and Theresa” by Clive Barker “An End To All Things “ by Brian Keene “Cemetery Dance” by Richard Chizmar “Drawn to the Flame” by Kevin Quigley “The Companion” by Ramsey Campbell “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe “A Mother’s Love” by Brian James Freeman “The Keeper’s Companion” by John Ajvide Lindqvist |
| stephen king the long walk: The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy Edwin Wong, 2019 WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT, BIRNAM WOOD COMES TO DUNSINANE HILL The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy presents a profoundly original theory of drama that speaks to modern audiences living in an increasingly volatile world driven by artificial intelligence, gene editing, globalization, and mutual assured destruction ideologies. Tragedy, according to risk theatre, puts us face to face with the unexpected implications of our actions by simulating the profound impact of highly improbable events. In this book, classicist Edwin Wong shows how tragedy imitates reality: heroes, by taking inordinate risks, trigger devastating low-probability, high-consequence outcomes. Such a theatre forces audiences to ask themselves a most timely question---what happens when the perfect bet goes wrong? Not only does Wong reinterpret classic tragedies from Aeschylus to O’Neill through the risk theatre lens, he also invites dramatists to create tomorrow’s theatre. As the world becomes increasingly unpredictable, the most compelling dramas will be high-stakes tragedies that dramatize the unintended consequences of today's risk takers who are taking us past the point of no return. |
| stephen king the long walk: Rage Steve Gerlach, 2004 Ben is a man on the edge and unless his life gets back on track, he knows something very bad will happen soon. He can’t control it; the rage controls him |
| stephen king the long walk: The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood, 2011-09-06 An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (New York Times). Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss. In this multi-award-winning, bestselling novel, Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This is the story of Offred, one of the unfortunate “Handmaids” under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed. In Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships, Offred’s persistent memories of life in the “time before” and her will to survive are acts of rebellion. Provocative, startling, prophetic, and with Margaret Atwood’s devastating irony, wit, and acute perceptive powers in full force, The Handmaid’s Tale is at once a mordant satire and a dire warning. |
| stephen king the long walk: One Dark Window Rachel Gillig, 2022-09-27 THE FANTASY BOOKTOK SENSATION! For fans of Uprooted and For the Wolf comes a dark, lushly gothic fantasy about a maiden who must unleash the monster within to save her kingdom—but the monster in her head isn't the only threat lurking. Elspeth needs a monster. The monster might be her. Elspeth Spindle needs more than luck to stay safe in the eerie, mist-locked kingdom she calls home—she needs a monster. She calls him the Nightmare, an ancient, mercurial spirit trapped in her head. He protects her. He keeps her secrets. But nothing comes for free, especially magic. When Elspeth meets a mysterious highwayman on the forest road, her life takes a drastic turn. Thrust into a world of shadow and deception, she joins a dangerous quest to cure the kingdom of the dark magic infecting it. Except the highwayman just so happens to be the King’s own nephew, Captain of the Destriers…and guilty of high treason. He and Elspeth have until Solstice to gather twelve Providence Cards—the keys to the cure. But as the stakes heighten and their undeniable attraction intensifies, Elspeth is forced to face her darkest secret yet: the Nightmare is slowly, darkly, taking over her mind. And she might not be able to stop him. |
| stephen king the long walk: Around the World in 80 Books David Damrosch, 2021-11-04 'Restlessly curious, insightful, and quirky, David Damrosch is the perfect guide to a round-the-world adventure in reading' Stephen Greenblatt A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, told through eighty classic and modern books 'It is always a pleasure to talk about books with David Damrosch, who has read all of them, and he is so eloquent and understanding about them all' Orhan Pamuk Inspired by Jules Verne's hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard's Department of Comparative Literature and founder of Harvard's Institute for World Literature, set out to counter a pandemic's restrictions on travel by exploring eighty exceptional books from around the globe. Following a literary itinerary from London to Venice, Tehran and points beyond, and via authors from Woolf and Dante to Nobel prizewinners Orhan Pamuk, Wole Soyinka, Mo Yan and Olga Tokarczuk, he explores how these works have shaped our idea of the world, and the ways the world bleeds into literature. To chart the expansive landscape of world literature today, Damrosch explores how writers live in two very different worlds: the world of their personal experience, and the world of books that have enabled great writers to give shape and meaning to their lives. In his literary cartography, Damrosch includes compelling contemporary works as well as perennial classics, hard-bitten crime fiction as well as haunting works of fantasy, and the formative tales that introduce us as children to the world we're entering. Taken together, these eighty titles offer us fresh perspective on perennial problems, from the social consequences of epidemics to the rising inequality that Thomas More designed Utopia to combat and the patriarchal structures within and against which many of these books' heroines have to struggle, from the work of Murasaki Shikibu a millennium ago to that of Margaret Atwood today. Around the World in 80 Books is a global invitation to look beyond ourselves and our surroundings, and to see our world and its literature in new ways. |
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The Long Walk (novel) - Wikipedia
The Long Walk is a dystopian horror novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1979, under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.It was collected in 1985 in the hardcover omnibus The Bachman Books, and has seen several reprints since, as both paperback and hardcover.In 2023, Centipede Press released the first stand-alone hardcover edition. [2]Set in a future dystopian …
The Long Walk - Stephen King
The Long Walk. In the near future, where 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. The game is simple - maintain a steady walking pace of four miles per hour without stopping. Three warnings, and you're out - permanently.
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The Long Walk: Directed by Francis Lawrence. With Judy Greer, Mark Hamill, David Jonsson, Charlie Plummer. A group of teenage boys compete in an annual contest known as "The Long Walk," where they must maintain a certain walking speed or get shot.
The Long Walk - Why does Garraty run at the end? (spoilers ... - Goodreads
6 Aug 2024 · I hadn't read Stephen King for awhile and read Doctor Sleep about a year ago and decided to do the Bachman Files. Just finished The Long Walk (after Rage) and was confused by the ending. I wanted to know more about the society that created this "walk" as well as it was too vague for me and I am a bit more of a "literal" reader.
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1 Dec 1978 · Richard Bachman (Pseudonym), Stephen King. Against the wishes of his mother, sixteen-year-old Ray Garraty is about to compete in the annual grueling match of stamina and wits known as The Long Walk. One hundred boys must keep a steady pace of four miles per hour without ever stopping... with the winner being awarded "The Prize"—anything he ...
Long Walk - Wikipedia
The Long Walk (Judge Dredd), a walk taken by judges in the British comic book series Judge Dredd The Long Walk, a novel by Stephen King (under the pseudonym Richard Bachman); The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows (2013), a memoir by Iraq War veteran Brian Castner; The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom (1956), a memoir by Polish …
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5 days ago · The Long Walk is the seventh book published by Stephen King; it is his sixth novel, and the second written under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman. It was first published in July 1979 and collected in the 1985 anthology, The Bachman Books. In an alternate United States (references to "April 31st", "fifty-one" states, "Popular Mechanix", and "the German air-blitz of …
The Long Walk (upcoming film) - Wikipedia
Vertigo Entertainment. Distributed by. Lionsgate. Country. United States. Language. English. The Long Walk is an upcoming American dystopian horror film directed by Francis Lawrence and written by JT Mollner. It is based on the 1979 novel of the same name by Stephen King.
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The The Long Walk Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quizzes written by community members like you. ... Most of what Stephen King writes has been adapted to film in some way. I think it would make a great film. Asked by Chelsea H #981218.
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26 Jul 2024 · Though Stephen King's movies have been sure-fire hits since the late 1970s, his 1979 novel The Long Walk has managed to evade even the biggest horror filmmakers. Starting in 1988, Dawn of the Dead director George A. Romero was attached to an adaptation, but the project never got off the ground.Around 2007, Stephen King-adapter Frank Darabont, who had …
The Long Walk (novel) - Wikipedia
The Long Walk is a dystopian horror novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1979, under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.It was collected in 1985 in the hardcover omnibus The Bachman Books, and has seen several reprints since, as both paperback and hardcover.In 2023, Centipede Press released the first stand-alone hardcover edition. [2]Set in a future dystopian …
The Long Walk - Stephen King
The Long Walk. In the near future, where 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. The game is simple - maintain a steady walking pace of four miles per hour without stopping. Three warnings, and you're out - permanently.
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The Long Walk: Directed by Francis Lawrence. With Judy Greer, Mark Hamill, David Jonsson, Charlie Plummer. A group of teenage boys compete in an annual contest known as "The Long Walk," where they must maintain a certain walking speed or get shot.
The Long Walk - Why does Garraty run at the end? (spoilers ... - Goodreads
6 Aug 2024 · I hadn't read Stephen King for awhile and read Doctor Sleep about a year ago and decided to do the Bachman Files. Just finished The Long Walk (after Rage) and was confused by the ending. I wanted to know more about the society that created this "walk" as well as it was too vague for me and I am a bit more of a "literal" reader.
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1 Dec 1978 · Richard Bachman (Pseudonym), Stephen King. Against the wishes of his mother, sixteen-year-old Ray Garraty is about to compete in the annual grueling match of stamina and wits known as The Long Walk. One hundred boys must keep a steady pace of four miles per hour without ever stopping... with the winner being awarded "The Prize"—anything he ...
Long Walk - Wikipedia
The Long Walk (Judge Dredd), a walk taken by judges in the British comic book series Judge Dredd The Long Walk, a novel by Stephen King (under the pseudonym Richard Bachman); The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows (2013), a memoir by Iraq War veteran Brian Castner; The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom (1956), a memoir by Polish …
The Long Walk | Stephen King Wiki | Fandom
5 days ago · The Long Walk is the seventh book published by Stephen King; it is his sixth novel, and the second written under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman. It was first published in July 1979 and collected in the 1985 anthology, The Bachman Books. In an alternate United States (references to "April 31st", "fifty-one" states, "Popular Mechanix", and "the German air-blitz of …
The Long Walk (upcoming film) - Wikipedia
Vertigo Entertainment. Distributed by. Lionsgate. Country. United States. Language. English. The Long Walk is an upcoming American dystopian horror film directed by Francis Lawrence and written by JT Mollner. It is based on the 1979 novel of the same name by Stephen King.
The Long Walk Characters - GradeSaver
The The Long Walk Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quizzes written by community members like you. ... Most of what Stephen King writes has been adapted to film in some way. I think it would make a great film. Asked by Chelsea H #981218.
The Long Walk: Cast, Story & Everything We Know About The Stephen King …
26 Jul 2024 · Though Stephen King's movies have been sure-fire hits since the late 1970s, his 1979 novel The Long Walk has managed to evade even the biggest horror filmmakers. Starting in 1988, Dawn of the Dead director George A. Romero was attached to an adaptation, but the project never got off the ground.Around 2007, Stephen King-adapter Frank Darabont, who had …
