Walk Me to the Distance
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Walk Me to the Distance
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Narrated by:
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Jared Zeus
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By:
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Percival Everett
About this listen
‘Everett has mastered the movement between unspeakable terror and knock out comedy’ – The New York Times
David Larson can never go home.
His parents are dead. His sister and her hippie husband, staunchly anti-war, won't even have the newly returned Vietnam veteran in the house. So Larson takes his chances on the road, travelling west from Georgia until he breaks down in the nowhere town of Slut’s Hole, Wyoming.
There he finds lodging with Chloë Sixbury, a one-legged sexagenarian widow, and her disabled son. Their ersatz family is complete when Larson takes in Butch, a Vietnamese girl abandoned at the highway rest stop where he works, but at the edge of this tableau lingers the unmistakable spectre of violence.
Blending the grotesquerie of the Southern Gothic with the Western's codes of frontier justice, in Walk Me to the Distance Percival Everett renders a vivid and haunting landscape of the American badlands, where cruelty is the lingua franca.
Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.
Listen to Percival's Booker Prize-shortlisted novel James on Audible now.
His narrative skills are unmatched. Highly skilled at developing each character, description painting in a colourful palette of words that help you create the landscape of the world the characters inhabit.
Percival has an incredible skill of injecting comedy in small chuckle worth places amidst the backdrop of the seriousness of his story.
Interestingly, despite the intensity of this books journey I would conclude my review and call this story… heartwarming and heartbreaking.
Gotta love Percival
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