Chasing the Hawk: Looking for My Father, Finding Myself - Hardcover

Sheehan, Andrew

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 038533561X ISBN 13: 9780385335614

Publisher: Delacorte Pr, 2001

Synopsis

In a poignant memoir, an investigative journalist describes how his struggle to reconnect and rebuild a relationship with his father, George Sheehan, the best-selling author of Running and Being, helped him to come to terms with his father's absence during his childhood and adolescence and with the anger and alcoholism that nearly destroyed his life.

About this title

About the Author

Andrew Sheehan is an investigative journalist for a television station in Pittsburgh, where he lives with his wife and two sons.

From the Inside Flap

e always chased my father, chased after his love, chased him through his many changes.

I chased him even when I thought I was running in the other direction.

Today, even though he is gone, I chase him still.

I know he is the key to my freedom.

To runners around the world, Dr. George Sheehan, author of the landmark New York Times bestseller Running and Being, was nothing short of a guru the country s greatest philosopher of sport.

But to his son Andrew, who had spent his entire boyhood longing for the attention and approval of an emotionally distant father, he was an incomprehensible paradox: a lifelong loner, who was now sunning himself in the spotlight of the nation s press; a hero to millions, who seemed to have no time for his own son.

The events that transformed George Sheehan from doctor to family man to bestselling author and media magnet began at th

Edition details

• Publisher: Delacorte Pr
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 038533561X
• ISBN 13: 9780385335614
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 291