The Incomplete Book of Running

Sagal, Peter

ISBN 10: 1432856839 ISBN 13: 9781432856830

Publisher: THORNDIKE PR, 2019

Synopsis

The host of NPR’s Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me! and a popular columnist for Runner’s World shares lessons, stories, advice and warnings gleaned from running the equivalent of once around the earth. (sports & recreation).

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Review

Praise for The Book of Vice:

"In this investigation of our human frailty, Peter Sagal combines intellect, sympathy, moral perspective, and common sense to produce--of all things--laughter. [In] the English morality plays of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries . . . 'Vice' was the devil's comic sidekick. Peter Sagal is ours." --P.J. O'Rourke

"Sagal . . . charms readers with the same wit, humility, and observational prowess he uses to win over the dipso-, nympho-, and assorted other maniacs he encounters." --Radar

Praise for The Incomplete Book of Running

"Sagal has created a new genre--the five-minute-mile memoir. Combining commentary and reflection about running with a deeply felt personal story, this book is winning, smart, honest, and affecting. Whether you are a runner or not, it will move you."
--Susan Orlean

"This is a brilliant book about running, and it's brilliant even if you never have--and never want to--move faster than a shuffle. Ostensibly, Peter's subject is the physical activity itself. (Feh, as far as I'm concerned.) In fact the book is a manifesto on the redemption of escape. And, even more so, a meditation on the direction of flight. Whatever you're running from, you're running to something else. What Peter runs toward is strength, understanding, endurance, acceptance, faith, hope, and charity."
--P. J. O'Rourke

"Peter Sagal is the funniest person on radio (quick reminder, I am on television). I enjoy listening to Peter on Wait, Wait . . . Don't Tell Me! on the weekend while chopping vegetables for soup. It will be nearly impossible to do that while reading this book, so if someone could bring me some carrots and onions in half-inch dice, that'd be great."
--Stephen Colbert

"Peter Sagal's insightful and open-hearted book about running will make you wish he was your long run buddy. This book not only demonstrates the ways in which running shapes a life, but also how life, in all its beauty and pain, shapes the run. I loved it."
--Lauren Fleshman

"Look, everything Peter Sagal says he knows is written on an index card supplied to him by a member of his staff. If he, himself, wrote any kind of guide to running, it'd be incomplete."
--Tom Hanks

About the Author

Peter Sagal is the host of the Peabody Award-winning NPR news quiz Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!, the most popular show on public radio, heard by five million listeners each week. He is also a playwright, a screenwriter, the host of Constitution USA with Peter Sagal on PBS, a one-time extra in a Michael Jackson music video, a contributor to publications from Opera News to The Magazine of the AARP and a featured columnist in Runner's World. He's run fourteen marathons across the United States. Sagal lives near Chicago with his wife Mara.

Edition details

• Publisher: THORNDIKE PR
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1432856839
• ISBN 13: 9781432856830
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 299