The Long Walk

About this book

In a future America controlled by a military dictatorship, an annual walking competition pushes its participants toward their physical limits. Continuing the contest becomes harder as exhaustion and psychological pressure accumulate.

The event places individual endurance inside a system defined by obedience and state power. First published under Stephen King's Richard Bachman pseudonym, the novel uses the demands of the walk to examine a society willing to make extreme suffering part of an organised public competition.

Source: Open Library