Strides

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 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 Strides , heralded author Benjamin Cheever explores the role of runnin