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The Running-Shaped Hole

The Running-Shaped Hole

Stewart, Robert Earl

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ISBN10: 1459749057
ISBN13: 9781459749054
Publisher: Dundurn Pr Ltd
Published: Mar 22 2022
Pages: 328
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
A searching, self-deprecating memoir of a man on his way to eating himself to death before discovering the anxiety and fulfillment of distance running.

Uplifting, emotional, and just plain hilarious, The Running-Shaped Hole may even inspire you to put down your fork and pick up those running shoes. -- JAY ONRAIT, TSN host and broadcaster

When Robert Earl Stewart sees his pants lying across the end of his bed, they remind him of a flag draped over a coffin -- his coffin. At thirty-eight years old he weighs 368 pounds and is slowly eating himself to death. The only thing that helps him deal with the fear and shame is eating. But one day, following a terrifying doctor's appointment, he goes for a walk -- an act that sets The Running-Shaped Hole in motion. Within a year, he is running long distances, fulfilling his mother's dying wishes, reversing the disastrous course of his eating, losing 140 pounds, and, after several mishaps and jail time, eventually running the Detroit Free Press Half-Marathon.

At turns philosophical and slapstick, this memoir examines the life-altering effects running has on a man who, left to his own devices, struggles to be a husband, a father, a son, and a writer.

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