![]() I've carried this character around like an old suitcase, down a long, dusty path. My own individual, stubborn, uncooperative often self-centered nature that still doubts itself-that, when troubles occur, tries to find something funny, or something nearly funny, about the situation. Can I see kindness there? No, all I see is my own nature. What I should be looking at is inside of me. I probably shouldn't be looking up at them. All I see are indifferent summer clouds drifting over the Pacific. Through this marvelous lens of sport emerges a panorama of memories and insights: the eureka moment when he decided to become a writer, his greatest triumphs and disappointments, his passion for vintage LPs, and the experience, after fifty, of seeing his race times improve and then fall back.By turns funny and sobering, playful and philosophical, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is rich and revelatory, both for fans of this masterful yet guardedly private writer and for the exploding population of athletes who find similar satisfaction in running.“I look up at the sky, wondering if I'll catch a glimpse of kindness there, but I don't. A year later, he’d completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons and a dozen critically acclaimed books, he reflects upon the influence the sport has had on his life and-even more important-on his writing.Equal parts training log, travelogue, and reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers his four-month preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon and takes us to places ranging from Tokyo’s Jingu Gaien gardens, where he once shared the course with an Olympian, to the Charles River in Boston among young women who outpace him. In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. ![]()
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