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9780684843216

Rowing Against the Current : On Learning to Scull at Forty

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  • ISBN13:

    9780684843216

  • ISBN10:

    0684843218

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-04-09
  • Publisher: Scribner
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Summary

IN THE MIDST OF A STANDARD MIDLIFE CRISIS -- COMPLETE WITH WINE-TASTING, YOGA CLASSES, AND A FAILED ATTEMPT AT A FIRST NOVEL -- FORTY-YEAR-OLD BARRY STRAUSS FALLS UNEXPECTEDLY AND PASSIONATELY IN LOVE WITH ROWING, A SPORT IN WHICH A TWENTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD IS A HAS-BEEN.

Author Biography

Barry Strauss is director of the Peace Studies Program and a professor of history and classics at Cornell University. He lives near Ithaca, New York.

Table of Contents

Contents

Foreword
Introduction
1 The Practice
2 The Beginner
3 The Coach
4 The Greeks
5 The Race
6 The Return
Suggested Readings

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