Runner's and Other Dreamer's

by John L. Parker Jr.

Book Overview

This collection of fine profiles, essays, and memoirs pries into some truly enigmatic places with profiles on Jim Ryun, Pat Porter, Barry Brown, Frank Shorter and others. Includes incisive essays and lighter moments.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0915297051
• ISBN13: 9780915297054
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Cedarwinds
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Books for the striving, talented runner...

John L. Paker Jr. is an elitist, and thank God. Those people who think everything written about running should be aimed at Runner's World readers can stock their shelves with the stuff written from the editors and contributors of that magazine without worry of running out of words. Plenty is written, and will continue to be written for the person who runs for fun, excerise and socialization. For those other people, however, who know what it's like to strive towards fast times, for those people who know what it's like to run 20 quarter mile repeats, and run 100 miles in a week, books by John Parker are for you. Read "Runner's and Other Dreamers," and read "Once a Runner." These books will haunt you because they sound like they are describing your inner thoughts, dreams and nightmares. These books tell how it really is to be out there on your own, thrashing your guts out on a trail somewhere...read them and know you are not really alone at all.

If you loved 'Once a Runner'....

For those who love Parker's "Once a Runner", this book reveals many of the experiences that helped mould the his ideas. Read about Jack Bachelor, see how the fictional Quenton Cassidy's brush with death as a child is in fact based upon Parker's own real life and see what Jim Fixx really meant to running. If you loved "Once a Runner' then you won't be disappointed with 'Runners and Other Dreamers'