The runner's literary companion : great stories and poems about running /
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| Language: | English |
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New York, N.Y. :
Penguin Books,
1996
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Table of Contents:
- Once a runner (excerpt) / J.L Parker, Jr.
- Wheelbarrow / E. Orcutt
- The Olympian (excerpt) / B. Glanville
- The other kingdom (excerpt) / V. Price
- See how they run / G.H. Coxe
- The loveliness of the long-distance runner / S. Maitland
- Long road to Boston (excerpt) / B. Tuckman
- Going to run all night / H. Sylvester
- Raymond's run / T.C. Bambara
- Ten seconds (excerpt) / L. Edwards
- Gallipoli (excerpt) / J. Bennett
- The medal / G.E. Evans
- The winning bug / J. Scholz
- The loneliness of the long-distance runner (excerpt) / A. Sillitoe
- Decline and fall (excerpt) / E. Waugh
- John Sobieski runs / J. Buechler
- The runner / J. Tabor
- Third wind / R.C. Matheson
- Running / J.C. Oates
- We cannot save him / L. Otto
- The track / W. McDonald
- Carbo-loading / M. Apple
- Staying the distance (excerpt) / W.R. Loader
- An evening at the track / D. Dunn
- The runner / W. Whitman
- Runner (excerpt) / W.H. Auden
- This runner / F. Webb
- The song of the ungirt runners / C.H. Sorley
- Morning athletes / M. Piercy
- Strategy for a marathon / M. Mueller
- Out on the course / W.J. Vernon
- The service / B. Johnson
- If / R. Kipling
- The finish / D. Hoffman
- Interview with a winner / D. Finkel
- Joan Benoit: 1984 Olympic marathon gold medalist / R. Ferrarelli
- Running / R. Wilbur
- 100m hurdles / W. Borden
- The sprinters / L. Morrison
- Running the mile relay
- R. Rash
- His running my running / R. Francis
- At Guaracara Park / E. Roach
- Death of the track star / B. Meissner
- A jogging injury / F.B. Jackson
- "Do we need an ambulance for cross country?" / G. Butcher
- Prefontaine / C. Ghigna
- The Iliad (excerpt) / Homer
- To an athlete dying young / A.E. Housman.