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The Running-Shaped Hole

Robert Earl Stewart

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Description:At 368 pounds a poet starts running to save his life — he ends up in jail and eventually, in the Detroit Free Press Half-Marathon.At 38, Robert Earl Stewart weighs 368 pounds. His own pants, laying freshly laundered across the end of his bed, remind him of a flag draped over a coffin. To deal with the fear and shame, he is compelled to eat himself sick. But one day, following a terrifying doctor’s appointment, he goes for a walk — an act that sets The Running-Shaped Hole in motion. Within a year, he is running long distances, making good on a deathbed promise he failed to make his mother, reversing the disastrous course of his eating, losing 140 pounds, and after several mishaps and jailtime, eventually runs the Detroit Free Press Half-Marathon. At turns philosophical and slapstick, this memoir examines the life-altering effects running has on a man who, left to his own devices, struggles to be a husband, a father, a son, and a writer.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Running-Shaped Hole. To get started finding The Running-Shaped Hole, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: At 368 pounds a poet starts running to save his life — he ends up in jail and eventually, in the Detroit Free Press Half-Marathon.At 38, Robert Earl Stewart weighs 368 pounds. His own pants, laying freshly laundered across the end of his bed, remind him of a flag draped over a coffin. To deal with the fear and shame, he is compelled to eat himself sick. But one day, following a terrifying doctor’s appointment, he goes for a walk — an act that sets The Running-Shaped Hole in motion. Within a year, he is running long distances, making good on a deathbed promise he failed to make his mother, reversing the disastrous course of his eating, losing 140 pounds, and after several mishaps and jailtime, eventually runs the Detroit Free Press Half-Marathon. At turns philosophical and slapstick, this memoir examines the life-altering effects running has on a man who, left to his own devices, struggles to be a husband, a father, a son, and a writer.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Running-Shaped Hole. To get started finding The Running-Shaped Hole, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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