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Bezig met laden... Flanagan's Run (1982)door Tom McNab
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.   ) MickeyMole | Oct 2, 2023 |  Excellent running bk! In 1931 Charles C. Flanagan, a grand-scale promoter in the P. T. Barnum vein, organizes a cross-country footrace from Los Angeles to New York, with a purse of $150,000 for the winner. Two thousand runners from around the world gather to participate in the grueling trek, which takes them through mountains, deserts, plains, and cities, forcing some friends and some alliances, tempered of course by the intense competition of the situation. Only a portion of the novel is set in Illinois, but organized fisticuffs in Springfield and organized crime in Chicago provide interesting and lively entertainment, along with period views of those cities. christinejoseph | Aug 31, 2015 | A novel based on an attempt at a trans-America road race in the 1930s, this would possibly not appeal to the non-runner, although it is a good story with plenty of twists, politics, and some violence. It is a little old-fashioned in terms of the descriptions of some characters (the little Mexican, the icy Finn etc and the descriptions of the woman in the race) but it's also a good old-fashioned story, the likes of which you don't get much any more, and some excellent descriptions of actual running (the author has coached athletics teams at a high level, and it shows) I think I'll save this to release around the Half Marathon in October. (  ) LyzzyBee | Sep 5, 2010 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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During the Depression the ebullient American entrepreneur Charles Flanagan assembles 2,000 runners from all corners of the earth, to run from Los Angeles to New York for prize-money of $150,000. Flanagan's Trans-America runners face 3,000 miles, across the Mojave desert and the frozen Rockies, running a daily average of 50 miles for three months. The American sports establishment, however, is desperate to crush what it sees as a professional challenge to the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics. Every day is therefore a struggle for survival, for Flanagan himself as well as the runners. Flanagan's Run is an epic tale, and a testimony to the strength of the human spirit. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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