Walk Me to the Distance

by Percival Everett

Overview

A veteran of the Viet Nam war returns to Georgia, drives across the country and has his car break down in Wyoming. He ends up sticking around this extremely small town with its odd population.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781941088982
Publisher:	Dzanc Books
Publication date:	08/05/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	235
Sales rank:	246,793
File size:	682 KB

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.

Editorial Reviews

Everett's story has violence and pathos, but it is really his terse writing that makes the novel potent. The silences between his taciturn Western characters, like the time bending in good jazz, are loaded with meaning. His characters, alternately pitiful and admirable, are both convincing and memorable.... This novel is like a winter in Slut's Hole: unsettling, harsh, and ultimately unforgettable.

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