The long walk
Record details
- ISBN: 9781441733054 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 1441733051 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
remote - Publisher: Ashland : Blackstone Audio, 2010.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 10:46:25. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Kirby Heyborne. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 154843 KB; MP3 file size: 303653 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | Teenage athletes -- Fiction Fascism -- United States -- Fiction United States -- Politics and government -- Fiction |
Genre: | Audiobooks. |
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Summary:
In an ultra-conservative America of the not-too distant future when America has become a police state, the annual marathon is the ultimate sports competition. One hundred boys are selected each year to enter a grueling 450-mile marathon walk. The game is simple: maintain a steady walking pace of four miles per hour without stopping. Three warnings, and you're out; permanently. The winner will be awarded whatever he wants for the rest of his life; but a single misstep could be the last.....