false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190925053m/1961532.jpg 1961532 1 <div><div>Acclaimed novelist Benjamin Cheever--author of <i>The Plagiarist</i>, <i>Famous After Death</i>, and <i>The Good Nanny</i>--brings his buoyant literary style to this impassioned memoir about the sport that changed his life.</div><div> </div><div>From Pheidippides, who rant the first marathon in 490 BC--bringing news to Athens of the Greek victory on the plains of Marathon--to our own soldiers in Iraq today, running is an integral part of human culture and legend. In <i>Strides</i>, heralded author Benjamin Cheever explores the role of running in human history while interspersing this account with revelations of his own decades-long devotion to the sport.</div><div> </div><div>Cheever has traveled the world writing features for<i> Runner's World</i> magazine, and he draws from this rich experience on every page. His adventures have taken him to Kenya in search of the secrets of the world's fastest long-distance runners and to a 10-K race with American soldeirs in Baghdad. Cheever celebrates the quotidian personal satisfaction of a morning run and the more exotic pleasures of the Medoc Marathon in Bordeaux, where fine wines are served at water stations and the first prize is the winner's weight in grand crus. He shares vivid moments from the New York Marathon and waxes rhapsodic about the granddaddy of American distance events--the Boston Marathon. But what truly distignuishes <i>Strides</i> as a memorable read is the unique lens through which this sparkling writer explores our deep bond to running, an experience he likens to that of being able to fly.</div></div> 1964603 18 9 2007 Strides: Running Through History With an Unlikely Athlete total:52|5:9|4:16|3:19|2:7|1:1| 52 181 83 22 1961532 1594862281 9781594862281 52 22 3.48 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190925053m/1961532.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1961532.Strides_Running_Through_History_With_an_Unlikely_Athlete 3 0 false Wed Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 21:20:20 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 21:21:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1961532 1594862281 9781594862281 52 22 3.48 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190925053m/1961532.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1961532.Strides_Running_Through_History_With_an_Unlikely_Athlete 4 0 false Tue Oct 06 18:15:20 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 18:21:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1961532 1594862281 9781594862281 52 22 3.48 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190925053m/1961532.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1961532.Strides_Running_Through_History_With_an_Unlikely_Athlete 3 0 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 21 08:12:03 -0700 2007 Wed Jan 16 08:18:21 -0800 2008 I was hoping for more. 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