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“One of the best accounts in print of the physical and emotional torments athletes endure in their superhuman efforts.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Again to Carthage is the "breathtaking, pulse-quickening, stunning" sequel to Once a Runner that "will have you standing up and cheering, and pulling on your running shoes" (Chicago Sun-Times). Originally self-published in 1978, Once a Runner became a cult classic, emerging after three decades to become a New York Times bestseller. Now, in Again to Carthage, hero Quenton Cassidy returns.
The former Olympian has become a successful attorney in south Florida, where his life centers on work, friends, skin diving, and boating trips to the Bahamas. But when he loses his best friend to the Vietnam War and two relatives to life’s vicissitudes, Cassidy realizes that an important part of his life was left unfinished. After reconnecting with his friend and former coach Bruce Denton, Cassidy returns to the world of competitive running in a desperate, all-out attempt to make one last Olympic team. Perfectly capturing the intensity, relentlessness, and occasional lunacy of a serious runner’s life, Again to Carthage is a must-read for runners—and athletes—of all ages, and a novel that will thrill any lover of fiction.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Well done Mr. Parker,
By Denton (Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Again to Carthage (Hardcover)
I read Once a runner and didn't have a desire to read Again to Carthage because I thought how could it match up. Well for me it surpassed my expectations and then some. Parker captures how runners think, feel, and the daily grind of running. I have both books and they have been going around from friend to friend.....well done!
3.0 out of 5 stars
OK,
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This review is from: Again to Carthage (Hardcover)
It seemed to me to be like a forced sequel. It took a while to catch my attention. There was too much non-running material (i.e. fishing) at the beginning. Eventually it was interesting but nowhere near the original "Once A Runner". I found that Quenton's training regimen was more "normal" and less impressive than the original. It seemed more like any other runner training for a marathon as opposed to the massochistic runner who trained for the mile in the original.
2.0 out of 5 stars
could have been better,
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This review is from: Again to Carthage (Hardcover)
Like most who picked up Again To Carthage, I assume, I was hoping for an entertaining sequel to Once A Runner. I was hoping for more of the excellent running descriptions that John L. Parker won over the running crowd with when he wrote OAR. Unfortunately, this was not the case at all with Again To Carthage.The running doesn't even start until after about 150 pages of fishing, lawyering, and I can't even remember what else. By the time that Cassidy actually starts running again, I found it pretty hard to re-find my excitement. Add in the unbelievability of it all and the incessant name-dropping of former running greats, and I was left wishing the story had ended in my mind with Cassidy happy at home with his silver medal from OAR. I'll give it the two stars, just because it is a running book, but I would have been happier with it finishing with OAR.
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