[PDF.23mm] Rowing Against the Current: On Learning to Scull at Forty (New York)

Rowing Against the Current: On Learning to Scull at Forty (New York)

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 | #1295476 in Books |  Scribner |  2001-04-17 |  2001-04-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.44 x.60 x5.50l,.52 | File type: PDF | 176 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A meandering tale|By J. Grattan|This meandering, short piece follows the first few years of the author's efforts to learn the practice of rowing at age forty-something. As a classics professor, he was already interested in the military uses of rowing in ancient Greece. He also has the good fortune of living in a city on Cayuga Lake in upstate New York, where rowing is part of t|From Kirkus s|To be middle-aged and ghosting a scull through the early morning light of a Lake Cayuga dawn: thats where Strauss finds himself, a pilgrim of sorts, searching for a little self-affirmation. But hes also a junkie, rapt in the glow that pervades the

In the midst of the standard, dreary midlife crisis -- complete with wine-tasting courses, 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.
Strauss, a professor of classics and history, writes about the unanticipated delights of an affair that, like so many others, begins as a casual dalliance and develops into a full-bl...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Rowing Against the Current: On Learning to Scull at Forty (New York)   |  Barry Strauss. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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