The Motion of the Body Through Space : a Novel
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Allergic to group activities of any kind, all her life Serenata has run, swum, and cycled on her lonesome. But now that she's hit 60, all that physical activity has destroyed her knees. As she contemplates surgery with dread, her previously sedentary husband Remington, recently and ignominiously redundant, chooses this precise moment to discover exercise. Which should be good for his health, right? Yet as he joins the cult of fitness that seems increasingly to consume the whole of the Western world, her once-modest husband burgeons into an unbearable narcissist. Ignoring all his other obligations in the service of extreme sport, he engages a saucy, taunting personal trainer named Bambi, who treats his wife with contempt. When Remington announces his intention to compete in a legendarily grueling triathlon, MettleMan, Serenata is sure he's going to end up injured or dead-- but the stubbornness of an aging man in Lycra is not to be underestimated.
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PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020]
Year Published: 2020
Description: 485 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language: English
Format: Large Type
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780063000193
0063000199
SUBJECTS
Large type books.
Married people -- Fiction.
Exercise -- Fiction.
Older athletes -- Fiction.
Exercise addiction -- Fiction.
Marathon running -- Fiction.
Pride and vanity -- Fiction.
Narcissism -- Fiction.
Retirees -- Fiction.
Upstate New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Domestic fiction.