Heft on Wheels
A Field Guide to Doing a 180
A few years ago, the closest Mike Magnuson thought he would get to participating in a sporting event was sitting in the local bar, slamming pitchers of beer and watching the NFL playoffs on TV. He was thirty-eight years old, smoked a pack a day, drank a case or two of beer a week, and carried 250 pounds of weight on his five-foot-ten-inch frame. Getting on a bicycle for a peddle around the block could have been dangerous in his condition, let alone trying to keep up with a group of racer-fit riders for forty-five miles at a clip, but that is just what Mike decided to do. He was sick of it all—the booze, the cigarettes, and the heft. He could…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4000-8260-5
- EAN: 9781400082605
- Produktnummer: 15723408
- Verlag: Crown
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 605 KB
Über den Autor
MIKE MAGNUSON teaches creative writing at Southern Illinois University, in Carbondale, and has written for Esquire, GQ, and Bicycling. He is the author of two novels and a memoir.
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