{"product_id":"running-difficulty-at-the-beginning-book-1","title":"Running: Difficulty at the Beginning, Book 1","description":"A Globe and Mail Top 100 Pick of 2006\nIn this, the first volume of Difficulty at the Beginning, 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 forexperience and suffering, and that's just what they're going to get. Written as though on the back of the pages ofGloria (shortlisted for the Governor General's Award, 1999), Running 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.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1897142064\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.1897142064.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Maillard, Keith\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact  including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43018792337469,"sku":"BVV.1897142064.G","price":22.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/1897142064-0.jpg?v=1772399800","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/running-difficulty-at-the-beginning-book-1","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}