Running
A Novel
Following his brilliant portrait of Maurice Ravel, Jean Echenoz turns to the life of one of the greatest runners of the twentieth century, and once again demonstrates his astonishing abilities as a prose stylist. Set against the backdrop of the Soviet liberation and post-World War II communist rule of Czechoslovakia, Running- a bestseller in France-follows the famed career of Czech runner Emil Zátopek: a factory worker who, despite an initial contempt for athletics as a young man, is forced to participate in a footrace and soon develops a curious passion for the physical limits he discovers as a long-distance runner.Zátopek, who tenaciously i…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-59558-667-4
- EAN: 9781595586674
- Produktnummer: 22227973
- Verlag: The New Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 1285 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 169 KB
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