{"product_id":"walk-me-to-the-distance","title":"Walk Me to the Distance","description":"\u003cb\u003eNow with a brilliant new package, a re-issue of the sophomore novel by Percival Everett, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of National Book Award winner \u003ci\u003eJames\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHaunting, provocative and bleakly funny, \u003ci\u003eWalk Me to the Distance\u003c\/i\u003e is Percival Everett's brilliant reexamination of the Western, and a laconic tragicomedy about what it takes to survive in the last days of a bygone big-sky country. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn self-imposed exile after returning home from the war in Vietnam, David Larson meanders into the barren town of Slut's Hole, Wyoming, where a local widow takes him under her wing. After making a sort of home among the town's hardscrabble locals, David grudgingly adopts a young Vietnamese girl abandoned along the highway. This sets in motion a set of tragic turns as Western mythos and frontier justice clash against the tides of a changing world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst published in 1985 by Clarion Books, \u003ci\u003eWalk Me to the Distance \u003c\/i\u003e was the sophomore novel of an iconic American voice. Over the course of his five decade career, Everett has written over twenty five books and been shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize (for 2020's \u003ci\u003eTelephone\u003c\/i\u003e), twice longlisted for the Booker Prize, and the recipient of the 2024 National Book Award for the \"genius\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003ci\u003eJames\u003c\/i\u003e, a brilliantly imagined retelling of \u003ci\u003eThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\u003c\/i\u003e told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. \u003ci\u003eJames\u003c\/i\u003e was a #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller and is being developed into film by Stephen Spielberg.","brand":"Percival Everett","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52787465322860,"sku":"9798217008483","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0912\/7985\/1884\/files\/9798217008483-us.jpg?v=1761057743","url":"https:\/\/commercestreetbooks.com\/products\/walk-me-to-the-distance","provider":"Commerce Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}