Pure Running - A Life Story

Langue : anglais

Edité par Hackney Reading Centre, 1982

090373852X / 9780903738521

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There are memoirs that chart a life in grand, sweeping arcs, and then there are memoirs that lace up their shoes, step outside, and get on with it. Pure Running ? A Life Story (1982) by Louise Shore falls firmly into the latter category: a quietly determined account that suggests life is best understood not through dramatic declarations, but through the steady rhythm of putting one foot in front of the other and seeing where it leads. Published by the Hackney Reading Centre?an imprint that carries with it a certain grounded, community-minded charm?this is not a glossy sports autobiography filled with sponsorship deals and triumphant podium finishes. Instead, it offers something rather more interesting: a personal narrative in which running is less a competitive pursuit and more a way of navigating the world. Shore?s story moves through places, moments, and reflections with the same persistence as a long-distance run, occasionally pausing, occasionally accelerating, but always maintaining a sense of purpose that feels entirely her own. What you?ll find here is not just mileage, but meaning. Running becomes a framework for thinking about endurance, independence, and the peculiar satisfaction of continuing when it would be perfectly reasonable to stop. There are observations that feel quietly insightful, passages that drift into introspection, and the occasional sense that the author has discovered something important somewhere between one step and the next, even if she doesn?t insist on spelling it out. This particular copy is listed as Good , which in Crappy Old Books terms suggests it has seen a fair amount of life?perhaps carried in a bag, perhaps read in moments of motivation, perhaps left open at a page that once felt particularly relevant. The cover may show some wear, the spine may have softened, and the pages may carry the faint suggestion that someone, at some point, considered taking up running themselves as a result. Whether they did is, of course, another matter entirely. It?s not the sort of book that demands to be read in one go. More likely, it will sit nearby, picked up from time to time, offering a few pages of perspective before being set aside again?rather like a run that starts with intention, meanders slightly, and ends with the quiet satisfaction of having gone somewhere, even if the destination was never the point. A modest, thoughtful memoir that finds its strength in persistence rather than spectacle, and a perfectly respectable way to suggest that you appreciate the idea of running as a philosophy?even if your own trainers remain, for the most part, reassuringly unused.…

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Détails bibliographiques

Titre
Pure Running - A Life Story
Auteur
Louise Shore
Éditeur
Hackney Reading Centre
Année de publication
1982
État de l'article
Good
Reliure
Paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
090373852X
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780903738521

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