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Duel in the Sun: Alberto Salazar, Dick Beardsley, and America's Greatest Marathon

By Alberto , Beardsley , Dick;Brant , John;Salazar

Book information

Publisher
Rodale
ISBN
9781594862625, 1594862621, 9781594866289, 1594866287, 9781609616984, 1609616987
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (2706324 bytes)
Pages
130 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

The 1982 Boston Marathon was great theater: Two American runners, Alberto Salazar, a celebrated champion, and Dick Beardsley, a gutsy underdog, going at each other for just under 2 hours and 9 minutes. Neither man broke. The race merely came to a thrilling, shattering end, exacting such an enormous toll that neither man ever ran as well again. Beardsley, the most innocent of men, descended into felony drug addiction, and Salazar, the toughest of men, fell prey to depression. Exquisitely written and rich with human drama, Duel in the Sun brilliantly captures the mythic character of the most thrilling American marathon ever run--and the powerful forces of fate that drove these two athletes in the years afterward.

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