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...good reason, Mandy Sayer has rarely strayed from the maxim "write about what you know." Her vagabond life has been the mother lode of her prose. In Dreamtime Alice, the memoir of her early adulthood, readers discovered where some of her fictional fringe dwellers came from. Velocity (Vintage; 302 pages), a gritty prequel to that celebrated work, provides even more clues to the source of Sayer's creativity. Out of her childhood - from a bizarre conception in May 1962 to the end of her erratic schooldays in 1979 - Sayer has spun an Australian booze opera about...
...sneakers in horror. Ultrarunners endure cramps, blisters, dehydration and the occasional exhaustion-induced hallucination. Why? All for the pleasure of more running. "It's a desire to go beyond your comfort level and test your own boundaries," says Dean Karnazes, champion ultrarunner and author of the best-selling memoir Ultramarathon Man. "You don't get a lot of people who quit easily...
Hornby is not unacquainted with misfortune. His parents split when he was 11, and he's divorced himself. Like Maureen, he has a disabled child; his son Danny is autistic. And although at 48 he's on a serious roll-the movie Fever Pitch is based on a memoir of his, and Johnny Depp just bought the rights to A Long Way Down-like JJ, Hornby knows the pain of a stalled career. "A lot of that is about remembering how frustrated and hopeless I felt when I was 30 and didn't think I'd ever be able...
...sneakers in horror. Ultrarunners endure cramps, blisters, dehydration and the occasional exhaustion-induced hallucination. Why? All for the pleasure of more running. "It's a desire to go beyond your comfort level and test your own boundaries," says Dean Karnazes, champion ultrarunner and author of the best-selling memoir Ultramarathon Man. "You don't get a lot of people who quit easily." The U.S. is the center of the ultramarathon movement, with up to 15,000 runners pounding through a choice of scores of events each year. But for those in search of roads less jogged, Asia is beginning...
...Feeling trapped in the rigid military, Ledyard deserted when his unit was stationed in Long Island for the Revolution. “Bound by the conventional and the ordinary, he would revolt,” Zug writes. Having quickly spent his navy pay, the poor Ledyard wrote a popular memoir of his voyage with Cook in an effort to drum up support among potential donors for a fur-trading expedition. Ledyard stirred up an interested group, but corruption abounded and Ledyard was cut out of the loop. One of his partners fled the U.S. after embezzling $200,000 from...