Now with a brilliant new package, a re-issue of the sophomore novel by Percival Everett,New York Timesbestselling author of National Book Award winnerJames.

Haunting, provocative and bleakly funny,Walk Me to the Distanceis Percival Everetts 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.

In self-imposed exile after returning home from the war in Vietnam, David Larson meanders into the barren town of Sluts Hole, Wyoming, where a local widow takes him under her wing. After making a sort of home among the towns 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.

First published in 1985 by Clarion Books,Walk Me to the Distancewas 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 2020sTelephone), twice longlisted for the Booker Prize, and the recipient of the 2024 National Book Award for the genius (The Atlantic)James, a brilliantly imagined retelling ofThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finntold from the enslaved Jims point of view.Jameswas a #1New York Timesbestseller and is being developed into film by Stephen Spielberg.

Percival Everett is a Distinguished Professor of English at USC, and the author of New York Times bestseller and National Book Award winnerJames.His other recent books includeDr. No(finalist for the NBCC Award for Fiction and winner of the PEN/ Jean Stein Book Award),The Trees(finalist for the Booker Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction),Telephone(finalist for the Pulitzer Prize),So Much Blue, Erasure,andI Am Not Sidney Poitier.He has received the NBCC Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award and The Windham Campbell Prize from Yale University.American Fiction, the feature film based on his novelErasure, was released in 2023and was awarded the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the writer Danzy Senna, and their children.

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publish Date: October 21, 2025
• Pages: 224
• Language: English
• Type: Paperback
• EAN/UPC: 9798217008483
• Dimensions: 8.0 X 5.2 X 0.6 inches | 0.6 pounds
• BISAC Categories: Literary Fiction, Humor & Entertainment, Humor & Entertainment