The Man Who Would Stop at Nothing - Long-Distance Motorcycling's Endless Road

"World's Toughest Motorcycle Riders"-long-distance motorcycling is not a pastime but an obsession. In this candid, eloquent, sharply observed book, Melissa Holbrook Pierson introduces us to this strange endeavor and the men and women who live to ride impossibly long distances, eating up road, almost without cease. And who find it nothing but fun.

Perhaps the most determined of them is John Ryan, a magnetic, enigmatic man who loves nothing better than breaking records of amazing distance-at no small risk to himself and his health. But why? Pierson, who rediscovered the joys of motorcycling in the midst of a personal crisis, puts on her helmet and joins Ryan in his element in order to understand his singular desire and discipline, his passion and his obsession.

The Man Who Would Stop at Nothing offers an intimate glimpse of an unusually independent yet supportive community as well as a revealing, unforgettable portrait of its most daring member. In electric, pitch-perfect prose, Pierson gives us rare insights into not only a subculture but also the deeply human craving for something more that drives it.

About the author

Melissa Holbrook Pierson is the author of The Perfect Vehicle, The Place You Love Is Gone, Dark Horses and Black Beauties, and The Man Who Would Stop at Nothing and The Secret History of Kindness. She lives in Shokan, New York.

Summary

“Pierson is an even better writer than she is a rider.”—Boston Globe

Product details

• Authors: Melissa Holbrook Pierson, Pierson Melissa Holbrook
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.12.2012
• EAN: 9780393344127
• ISBN: 978-0-393-34412-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 211 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 168 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel > Car, motorcycle, moped; Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); TRANSPORTATION / Motorcycles / General, Motorcycles: general interest