Hello everybody,
this is a strange request: I'm looking for a book, a novel I read about 25 - 30 years ago as "a chapter a week" in a german magazine.
It was about the 1928 bunion derby, but it is clearly not the more recent book by Charles Kastner, which was edited in 2007. This latter is a historical account and not a novel.
Unfortunately I can't remember the author nor the original title. I suppose though that it was originally written in english and that I read a german translation.
I do remember some features : there was a woman participating as well (= novelist's freedom?) and there were german athletes who were doping themselves with cocaine whilst running across the Rocky Mountains. At the end, the oldest runner, who is in front of everybody else, stops short just before the finishing line to wait for other participants to cross the line together.
Does anything of this sound familiar to you?
I would like to find this book (or at least it's references, author, title, year of edition), because it is the book that first got me interested in running and long distance running when I was a young girl.
So far internet research came up with nothing.
Any help would be appreciated!
this is a strange request: I'm looking for a book, a novel I read about 25 - 30 years ago as "a chapter a week" in a german magazine.
It was about the 1928 bunion derby, but it is clearly not the more recent book by Charles Kastner, which was edited in 2007. This latter is a historical account and not a novel.
Unfortunately I can't remember the author nor the original title. I suppose though that it was originally written in english and that I read a german translation.
I do remember some features : there was a woman participating as well (= novelist's freedom?) and there were german athletes who were doping themselves with cocaine whilst running across the Rocky Mountains. At the end, the oldest runner, who is in front of everybody else, stops short just before the finishing line to wait for other participants to cross the line together.
Does anything of this sound familiar to you?
I would like to find this book (or at least it's references, author, title, year of edition), because it is the book that first got me interested in running and long distance running when I was a young girl.
So far internet research came up with nothing.
Any help would be appreciated!
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