Too Far to Walk

Too Far to Walk

First Vintage Books edition

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Publisher's Synopsis

John Fist is a talented overachiever who has become restless and bored in his second year at Sheldon, an elite New England college. He is losing motivation, increasingly finding it "too far to walk" to his philosophy class across campus. So when the devil in sophomore's clothing (a fellow student named Chum Breed) offers him all the most intense experiences of the modern world in exchange for a twenty-six-week lease on his soul, Fist eagerly signs up. The anticipated adventures, however, turn out not to be quite what he had bargained for. Pulitzer Prize-winner John Hersey's Too Far to Walk is a bracing updating of the classic Faust legend, a compelling coming-of-age novel, and a masterful work of mid-century fiction.

Book information

ISBN: 9780593080863
Publisher: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Imprint: Vintage Books
Pub date:
Edition: First Vintage Books edition
DEWEY: 813.52
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 246
Weight: 212g
Height: 134mm
Width: 202mm
Spine width: 22mm