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Going Down Slow (Hardcover)
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Going Down Slow (Hardcover)
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Going Down Slow, The Times of an Old Man Who Runs. The word "runs"
appears in the subtitle of this memoir, and the act of running
spans the breadth of it. So it is perhaps fair if some call this a
running book. Running, however, is not the main topic. Adventure
is. Author Dallas Smith is drawn to the adventure his hobby brings.
Running is indeed a constant presence in the stories, but mostly as
a current that sweeps him along, the reason he encounters the
places he describes, the people he meets, and the adventure he
finds. Running connects him to everything and everyone. Events and
episodes vary widely, as do the locales where they play out,
stretching from the urbane glamor of Stockholm, Sweden to Spain's
El Camino de Santiago to the tussocks of the Arctic tundra to a
flood-scoured gorge in Tennessee-and places in between. A run
through Central Park suddenly shifts and takes the reader on a
fishing trip where three adolescent boys of a distant time and
place pulled sagging carp out of a muddy swamp and lugged their
haul home. Smith finds adventures and brings them home. This
sprawling story delights and surprises readers. Smith brings
observation, insight, and wit. His narrative flows like the smooth
stride of a fast runner and makes the reader feel as if he, too,
were there experiencing the color and danger of these episodic
adventures.
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