{"product_id":"9781451695038","title":"Life Is a Wheel: Memoirs of a Bike-Riding Obituarist","description":"\u003ci\u003eLife Is a Wheel \u003c\/i\u003echronicles the cross-country bicycle trip Bruce Weber made at the age of fifty-seven, an “entertaining travel story filled with insightful thoughts about life, family, and aging” (The Associated Press).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring the summer and fall of 2011, Bruce Weber, an obituary writer for \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, bicycled across the country, alone, and wrote about it as it unfolded. \u003ci\u003eLife Is a Wheel\u003c\/i\u003e is the witty, inspiring, and reflective diary of his journey, in which the challenges and rewards of self-reliance and strenuous physical effort yield wry and incisive observations about cycling and America, not to mention the pleasures of a three-thousand-calorie breakfast.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe story begins on the Oregon coast, with Weber wondering what he’s gotten himself into, and ends in triumph on New York City’s George Washington Bridge. From Going-to-the-Sun Road in the northern Rockies to the headwaters of the Mississippi and through the cityscapes of Chicago and Pittsburgh, his encounters with people and places provide us with an intimate, two-wheeled perspective of America. And with thousands of miles to travel, Weber considers his past, his family, and the echo that a well-lived life leaves behind.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePart travelogue, part memoir, part romance, part paean to the bicycle—and part bemused and panicky account of a middle-aged man’s attempt to stave off, well, you know—\u003ci\u003eLife Is a Wheel\u003c\/i\u003e is “a book for cyclists, and for anyone who has ever dreamed of such transcontinental travels. But it also should prove enlightening, soul-stirring, even, to those who don’t care a whit about bikes but who care about the way people connect” (\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e).","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124064108784,"sku":"9781451695038","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781451695038_p0.jpg?v=1763837726","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781451695038","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}