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Running: A Novel

de Cara Hoffman

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Running brings together an ensemble of outsiders who get by as runners-hustlers who sell tourists on low-end accommodations for a small commission and a place to stay. Bridey Sullivan, a young American woman who has fled a peculiar and traumatic upbringing in Washington State, takes up with a queer British couple, the poet Milo Rollack and Eton drop-out Jasper Lethe. Slipping in and out of homelessness, addiction, and under-the-table jobs, they create their own kind of family as they struggle to survive. Whether in the red light district of Athens or the world of fire jumpers in the Pacific Northwest, we are always in a space of gorgeously wrought otherness. Running shows novelist Cara Hoffman to be writing at the peak of her craft.… (més)

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Well, this beautiful book is not reminiscent of the Greece experience I had while backpacking thru Europe in the 80's - thankfully. I do remember the runners - so glad I never met this crew, my hostels, "pensions" etc were much nicer and safer then the ones depicted in the novel. That being said, this is both a beautiful and ugly novel. The writing is dreamy, invoking, poetic. That however, means that sometimes I wasn't sure what exactly was going on - which was frustrating. Facts are not the point here - emotions, descriptions, sensory experiences are what I got with this novel, and I am okay with that.

I will never understand how people can live like this, choose to live like this, but that is why I read books - to try to get there! This is one of the rare books that I would reread, just such beautiful writing! (

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Running brings together an ensemble of outsiders who get by as runners-hustlers who sell tourists on low-end accommodations for a small commission and a place to stay. Bridey Sullivan, a young American woman who has fled a peculiar and traumatic upbringing in Washington State, takes up with a queer British couple, the poet Milo Rollack and Eton drop-out Jasper Lethe. Slipping in and out of homelessness, addiction, and under-the-table jobs, they create their own kind of family as they struggle to survive. Whether in the red light district of Athens or the world of fire jumpers in the Pacific Northwest, we are always in a space of gorgeously wrought otherness. Running shows novelist Cara Hoffman to be writing at the peak of her craft.

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