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Review

"Moravian Academy's cross country team has a coach capable of orchestrating a championship season and an author who can chronicle the journey."—Associated Press"A beautiful, affecting book. Clean and pure and honest and loving. My hat's off to a wonderful new writer."—Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights

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About the Author

Sally Pont teaches English at Moravian Academy, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where she is associate dean of students. She holds an M.F.A. in writing from Penn State, where she studied with Paul West.

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Product details

Paperback: 240 pages

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin; First edition (September 7, 2000)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0156011824

ISBN-13: 978-0156011822

Product Dimensions:

5.5 x 0.6 x 8.5 inches

Shipping Weight: 13.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

2.8 out of 5 stars

7 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#4,413,305 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Five sentences into this book, I thought, "Uh-oh - she must have gotten an MFA." Sure enough. Graduates of writing programs too often over-write; Pont conceals her subjects behind a storm of poetic imagery. In trying to make everything and everyone seem Remarkable and Important, she prevents her ideas or subjects from standing out on their own.Her affection for kids, and her love for running, are evident. Her pure passion and frustration and delight merit three stars. But the over-preciousness of her prose kept this book from earning more.A couple of examples:"Pain is clever, though. From the first stride, it spelunks through the body, mining deep. It begins in the cavern of the head with a hammered ringing, shimmies down the larynx, scuffs the stomach, swings from hamstrings, digs its spiked heels into ankles, then catapults back up to the melting knees, the roasting heart, and the head again, where the ringing has become the howl of the dog.""And poets like Dave are the keepers of secrets: they swiftly perambulate the meaning of things, counting the pulse by avoiding the heart."Pont and I have much in common. In addition to being a runner, I am currently an English teacher and have just finished coaching a season of sports at my private school. I really wanted to empathize with her struggles and successes and insights. If I were to write about my own team, though, I'd make the story (and the kids) less mystical, less in the service of forced poetry, more down-to-earth real.

First of all I enjoyed reading Ms. Pont's book. I too am also a runner and Cross Country Coach. Her description of a season's worth of experiences is not all that unusal when it comes to the typical High School team. The one real problem I had with the book was the omission of some type of forward or afterword. The rear cover talks about this as being her first season of coaching but I did not gather that from the narrative. Did she change the names of her athletes? A little more backround info would have been nice. She hints at that but does not say for sure. I will definitely recommend this to my athletes as a work that they could perhaps find something of themselves in.

This is a lovely and loving book about a group of interesting teenaged girls and boys, written from the perspective of someone very involved in one aspect of their lives -- which happens to be that of cross-country coach. As a parent, as a cross-country parent, as a runner, and most of all as a reader who likes good writing, I enjoyed this book tremendously. Started it Monday, finished it Tuesday, loaned it on Wednesday. Like the Madeline Blais story of high school girl basketball players (In These Girls, Hope Is A Muscle), this is, happily, NOT just another typical clunkily written sports book. Kudos to Ms. Pont on a wonderful debut!

As others have said it's a good story but she ruins it by trying to hard to sound like a literary giant. Every description is so awash in flowery details and she often infers things that she couldn't have known. Very disappointing.

As a runner and Cross Country Coach I am always looking for books that have to do with my avocation. I found this book easy to read and entertaining. My only fault with it is the lack of a forward or afterword to help fill in some of the gaps in the narrative. For example, the rear cover talks about this being the coach's first season but that is not apparent in the book itself. I will definitely pass this book on to my runners who will probably find something of themselves in it.

As a cross country coach and runner, I found this book appealing on several levels. It is an easy read and it shows the joys of running to run, not just to win. The style was very descriptive, but it gave a unique and original twist to the book. That is one thing about distance runners . . . they all have a unique and original twist!

There are so many good running books. Don't waste your time with this poor effort. Ms. Pont's prose is passable but she has no feel for the sport of cross country. A very poor effort.

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