{"product_id":"9781897142066","title":"Running","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e Top 100 Pick of 2006\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this, the first volume of \u003ci\u003eDifficulty at the Beginning\u003c\/i\u003e, John Dupre is a student at Raysburg Military Academy, where his best friend Lyle Ledzinski is training him to be a perfect Socratic athlete: “A sound mind in a sound body.”Together they want to experience all of life — athletics, philosophy, beer, the quest for Truth, and most of all, those mysterious creatures that seem to come from another planet: girls. By their junior year they've taken to hitch-hiking around, fired up on Kerouac, James Dean and St. Augustine, and their horizons begin to expand like an endless sunrise. They're out for \u003ci\u003eexperience and suffering\u003c\/i\u003e, and that's just what they're going to get. Written as though on the back of the pages of \u003ci\u003eGloria\u003c\/i\u003e (shortlisted for the Governor General's Award, 1999), \u003ci\u003eRunning\u003c\/i\u003e depicts the lives of young men in late-1950s America with humour, pathos, and muscle. Taken on its own or as the prelude to Difficulty at the Beginning, it's a memorable and invigorating piece of writing that shows how the smug, grey culture of the 1950s was shattered forever with three little words.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brindle \u0026 Glass Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47065465618672,"sku":"9781897142066","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781897142066_p0.jpg?v=1763611199","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781897142066","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}