Race Like No Other by Liz Robbins

Race Like No Other by Liz Robbins

Gets closer to this marathon than an avenue railbird, and it leaves impressions not fleeting, but lasting.

--Sports Illustrated

The New York City Marathon is considered one of the nation's--and the world's--premier sporting events. A reporter for the New York Times, Liz Robbins brings the color, the history, the electricity of this remarkable annual competition alive in A Race Like No Other. Centering her narrative around the fabled 2007 running, Robbins captures all the intensity of the grand event, following the runners--both professional and amateur--along 26.2 grueling miles through the streets of New York, from the starting line at the Verrazano Narrows Bridge to the finish line in Central Park, and offering fascinating portraits of marathon legends like the race's charismatic founder, the late Fred Lebow, and nine-time champion Grete Waitz. The Wall Street Journal raves: Robbins nails the race, painting a broad, impressionistic portrait of what I consider New York's greatest day. No other book captures the excitement of the New York City Marathon like A Race Like No Other.

Robbins, Liz: - Liz Robbins' FREAKED is one of the winners of the 14th Annual Elixir Press Poetry Awards and her second collection, PLAY BUTTON, won the 2010 Cider Press Review Book Award, judged by Patricia Smith. Her album Picked Strings is a recording of various poems from that collection. Her chapbook Girls Turned Like Dials won the 2012 Yellow Jacket Press prize. She won the 2015 Crab Orchard Review Special Issue Feature Award in Poetry, and her poems are in recent or forthcoming issues of American Literary Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Denver Quarterly, Kenyon Review Online, and River Styx. She's an associate professor of creative writing at Flagler College in St. Augustine, FL.

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ISBN 13	9780061373138
ISBN 10	0061373133
Title	Race Like No Other
Author	Liz Robbins
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Year published	2008-10-07
Number of pages	256
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