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Running for Home - by Edward McClelland (Paperback)

Running for Home - by  Edward McClelland (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In this moving new novel, a slight Midwest youth deals with a rough high school and a vanishing factory town through a devotion to his running sport and his caring family. Aided by a spunky girlfriend, a humble-wise coach, loyal teammates, and his earned self-awareness, he learns the value of resilience and home.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>In this moving new novel, a slight Midwest youth deals with a rough high school and a vanishing factory town through a devotion to his running sport and his caring family. Aided by a spunky girlfriend, a humble-wise coach, loyal teammates, and his earned self-awareness, he learns the value of resilience and home. Good for adolescents through adults.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>How to Speak Midwestern, a guide to the <p/>speech and sayings of Middle America, which The New York Times called a dictionary wrapped in some serious dialectology inside a gift book trailing a serious whiff of Relevance.<br><br>Ted McClelland's Running for Home relocates Chariots of Fire to the Rust Belt, with Inland North accents instead of the Queen's English, and a way better soundtrack. A blue-collar bildungsroman with breakaway speed. I enjoyed the book so much it motivated me to run three miles today. --Pete Beatty, author of Cuyahoga<br>

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