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Informationen zum Autor Geoffrey Beattie is a professor at the University of Manchester. Television viewers know him better as the resident psychologist in the popular reality show Big Brother . His academic publications have appeared in a wide variety of international journals! including Nature ! and he has also written for a diverse range of newspapers and magazines! including The Guardian ! The Times ! The Independent and The Observer . Ben Beattie's ambition is to become an elite runner! a goal that he juggles with full-time work. If he takes two minutes off his half-marathon time! his ambition will be fulfilled! but those two minutes could take a lifetime. Klappentext Tells an emotional story of a father and son trying to repair a relationship through a shared activity that depends on sheer physical effort, the kind of physical effort that may once have been the source of commonality between father and son in all previous generations but which seems to be absent in the modern world. Zusammenfassung Tells an emotional story of a father and son trying to repair a relationship through a shared activity that depends on sheer physical effort! the kind of physical effort that may once have been the source of commonality between father and son in all previous generations but which seems to be absent in the modern world.
