After The Race

After the Race recounts the unraveling of the family Reed. and the raw, serpentine trails the father-son pair of Wayne--an Army Special Forces veteran whose reckless pursuit of contentment propels the story--and Charles--a gifted runner whose effortless successes on the track contrast his struggles everywhere else--blaze through, over and around Wayne's worsening alcoholism and deteriorating mental health. The plot ricochets between vaulted ceilings--an enormous financial windfall, near misses on distance running records, romance and reunion--and concrete basement floors--arrests, bar-fights, accidents, near-death experiences, the Blizzard of 1993, and the collapse of North American Honeybee populations. The result is a character-driven exploration of the tension between appetite and restraint, between gunpowder and glue, set deep in Virginia apple country, along the northern rim of the Shenandoah Valley.

• | Author: Michael Brandon Jones
• | Publisher: Michael B. Jones
• | Publication Date: Mar 06, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 440 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0988886405
• | ISBN-13: 9780988886407