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Starting Block, Paperback by Mccutcheon, Robert, Like New Used, Free shipping...
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A book in excellent condition. Cover is shiny and undamaged, and the dust jacket is included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. May be very minimal identifying marks on the inside cover. Very minimal wear and tear.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780977699384
- Format
- Perfect
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Starting Block
- Item Height
- 0.5 in
- Publisher
- Bellissima Publishing, LLC
- Genre
- Fiction
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Topic
- Romance / General, Sports
- Item Weight
- 10.9 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 204 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bellissima Publishing, LLC
ISBN-10
0977699382
ISBN-13
9780977699384
eBay Product ID (ePID)
57410419
Product Key Features
Book Title
Starting Block
Number of Pages
204 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Romance / General, Sports
Genre
Fiction
Format
Perfect
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
10.9 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Young Adult Audience
TitleLeading
The
Synopsis
Swimming runs in the Livingstone family, so to speak. And to sixteen-year-old Teddy Livingstone, as he follows in the wake of his two older brothers, life often seems more like a relay race than even he would like. There is no doubt who anchors that relay. His oldest brother, Chip, a senior in high school, is the fastest of the boys in the water, as seems only right. Billy is the in-between brother: not the youngest, not the fastest. But Teddy is in between in his own way. "The Starting Block" tells the story of the first of three big swimming meets in the suburbs of 1967 Pittsburgh that make the brothers rivals and teammates at the same time. The events of that crucial swimming season forces Teddy to choose which of his brothers to forgive-Billy for losing or Chip for winning. Those months hold events for Teddy besides the hundred free. He falls in love for the first time. All along he has to figure out how to think about girls, if your family can be your friends, whether love can be won or lost like a race. It helps Teddy to recount those events in his own way; he likes to think he is ghost writing his life. Sometimes he speaks in the first person; sometimes he prefers the distance of the third person. This method suits his divided self-torn between childhood and adulthood, between love and the illusion of love, but above all between brothers. Robert McCutcheon, a native of Pittsburgh, holds degrees in English literature from Duke, Oxford and Stanford. He lives in Elkins, West Virginia, and teaches at Davis & Elkins College, where he can be contacted most days at noon in the pool.
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