Running Through History With an Unlikely Athlete
by
Benjamin Cheever
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
Acclaimed novelist Benjamin Cheever--author of The Plagiarist, Famous After Death, and The Good Nanny--brings his buoyant literary style to this impassioned memoir about the sport that changed his life.
From Pheidippides, who ran the first marathon in 490 BC--bringing news to Athens of the...