Room For Improvement Notes on a Dozen Lifelong Sports
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Sprache:Englisch
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Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
01.11.2011
Verlag
Alfred A KnopfSeitenzahl
256
Maße (L/B/H)
21.6/16.2/2.3 cm
Gewicht
376 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-307-70002-5
From the author of the beloved novel "Spartina--"winner of the National Book Award--comes a collection of essays that describe with wonderful candor and humor a lifetime of addiction. Not to booze, or drugs, or the rush of adrenaline, but instead, to his insatiable need to say yes to a challenge. Spanning more than fifty years of ambitious and sometimes peculiar athletic endeavors, these essays take us along on some of Casey's greatest adventures: a twenty-six-day Outward Bound course in Maine during the dead of winter; being pinned by a 205-pound Judo instructor (who then whispers in his ear, "Don't give up, white boy"); completing a seventieth-birthday 70K marathon of his own devising that included rowing, bicycling, skating, rollerblading, and, finally, trotting the dog for a mile . . . and many more. Here is a joyous self-portrait of a great writer who loves going to extremes, just to find out what it's like once he gets there.
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