Running Uphill: The Fast, Short Life of Canadian Champion Harry Jerome

by Fil Fraser

Book Overview

Running Uphill showcases Harry Jerome's race upon the treadmill of 'race, ' where progress against racism is glacial, even for an Olympic sprinter. Fil Fraser explains this pernicious irony, this very Canadian paradox, in masterful, beautiful prose. His humour is a razor; his honesty is a guillotine. In Fraser's bio, heroic Jerome looms larger than life and too fast for anyone to weight him down with labels. George Elliott Clarke, Laureate, 2005-08...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1896124135
• ISBN13: 9781896124131
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Dragon Hill Publishing
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.3"