{"product_id":"what-i-talk-about-when-i-talk-about-running","title":"What I Talk About When I Talk About Running","description":"From the best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAfter Dark\u003c\/i\u003e, a rich  and revelatory memoir about writing and running, and the integral impact both have  made on his life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing,  Haruki Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he’d completed a solo course  from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons  and a slew of critically acclaimed books, he reflects upon the influence the sport  has had on his life and—even more important—on his writing. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Equal parts training  log, travelogue, and reminiscence, this revealing memoir covers his four-month preparation  for the 2005 New York City Marathon and includes settings ranging from Tokyo’s Jingu  Gaien gardens, where he once shared the course with an Olympian, to the Charles River  in Boston among young women who outpace him. Through this marvellous lens of sport  emerges a cornucopia of memories and insights: the eureka moment when he decided  to become a writer, his greatest triumphs and disappointments, his passion for vintage  LPs and the experience, after the age of fifty, of seeing his race times improve  and then fall back.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e By turns funny and sobering, playful and philosophical, \u003ci\u003eWhat  I Talk About When I Talk About Running \u003c\/i\u003eis both for fans of this masterful yet guardedly  private writer and for the exploding population of athletes who find similar satisfaction  in distance running.","brand":"PRH","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47648088817802,"sku":"9780385681919","price":22.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0744\/7452\/0714\/files\/BNCImageAPI_f7f1db72-4d86-4a34-87eb-3e68e0e67fa5.jpg?v=1770342589","url":"https:\/\/curiosityhousebooks.com\/products\/what-i-talk-about-when-i-talk-about-running","provider":"Curiosity House Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}