The long run of Myles Mayberry
By: Alfred Alcorn.
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Zoland Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Runners (Sports) -- Fiction.; Marathon running -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Combine the poetic hymns to running of Alan Sillitoe, the tales of obsessive behavior of Oliver Sacks, and a healthy dose of the anarchy and absurdity of Cambridge in the '70s, and you get The Long Run of Myles Mayberry. Myles is a genial loser, moving from one failed job to another. The only thing he has going for him is his dream of winning the Boston Marathon, which not even a stint in a psychiatric hospital can remedy.

Alfred Alcorn spins a freewheeling farce with a solid core of longing, determination and single-minded ambition, lampooning along the way every form of '70s excess. The Long Run of Myles Mayberry is a delightful, campy spoof of bad behavior, and a thoughtful elegy to the joys of running.