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Room for Improvement: Notes on a Dozen Lifelong Sports
Room for Improvement Notes on a Dozen Lifelong Sports Author:John Casey 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 some... more »times 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.« less