Everett, Percival. Walk Me To The Distance.
New York, NY: Ticknor & Fields, 1985.
The following is from the inside jacket cover of Walk Me To The Distance:
David Larson can't go home again; that's given. So David, recently returned from Vietnam,
heads for the West of his imagination. He fetches up in Slut's Hole, Wyoming, where he
settles in with a one-legged, widow-lady sheep rancher named Sixbury and her severely retarded
son. When Butch, a seven-year-old Vietnamese war orphan, and Sixbury's son abruptly
disappear, David is forced to a desperate — and correct — conclusion. In
classic style, a posse is organized and goes about its mortal business. Like it or not,
David makes his commitment.
With spare strokes, Percival Everett paints the Western landscape as it is today, clinging
to a mythical heritage and a frontier code that may be seriously skewed in a world that
has passed it by. In big-sky country the mere act of living is hard and cruel and
heart-stopping.
Of Everett's first novel, Suder, the Los Angeles Times said, "Percival
Everett has created here a mad work of comic genius... to make up a narrative that has never,
never been told before." His new novel brings to mind the stark beauty of Hud
and Shane and The Ox-Bow Incident.
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"Percival L. Everett." (July 23, 1998). Retrieved December 1, 2004 from the
World Wide Web at: http://www.usca.edu/aasc/everett.htm.
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Wickett, Dan. "Interview with Percival Everett." (March 15, 2003). Retrieved
December 1, 2004 from the World Wide Web at:
http://www.breaktech.net/ EmergingWritersForum/View_Interview.aspx?id=29.
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