By Tom McNab
In 1931 Charles C. Flanagan, a grand-scale promoter within the P. T. Barnum vein, organizes a cross-country footrace from l. a. to manhattan, with a handbag of $150,000 for the winner. thousand runners from around the globe assemble to take part within the grueling trek, which takes them via mountains, deserts, plains, and towns, forcing a few acquaintances and a few alliances, tempered after all by way of the serious festival of the placement. just a section of the unconventional is decided in Illinois, yet geared up fisticuffs in Springfield and arranged crime in Chicago offer attention-grabbing and vigorous leisure, besides interval perspectives of these towns.
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His mother doesn’t seem to hear it for the first mile or so, but it must have had a cumulative effect on her nerves because when we were almost there, she reached down and pinched his leg so hard that he gasped and tried to holler, but he couldn’t make another sound and didn’t for the rest of the trip. Once he shut up, the girl started muttering to herself like we weren’t even there. “Muthafucka just lying. He know he my baby daddy. Look at his damn face. Look just like him. Nigga know I ain’t been fuckin’ nobody but him since his ass got here and he can’t give me five dollars a week?
She was wearing a pale blue polyester pantsuit and white sandals with stockings. Her hair, which was pressed and hot-curled within an inch of its life, was elaborately styled and piled like Mahalia Jackson’s when she sang her solo at the end of Imitation of Life. Hardly anybody asks for that kind of hard press anymore. Sister seems to have missed the moment when we decided it was okay for the hair to move. A thin white scarf was loosely tied under her chin to protect this well-sprayed helmet of hair from even the possibility of a breeze.
I wasn’t expecting to see anything like that up here,” I said. He looked at me and smiled. ” I remembered how fast he had moved back there. The kid never saw it coming. ” “Army,” he said. “He’ll be all right as soon as he catches his breath. ” 20 what looks like crazy on an ordinary day . . • “An important distinction,” I said, realizing my hands were shaking. I kept seeing that girl’s head flopping around when the guy was slapping her. “I know that kid,” Eddie said. I was surprised. ” He nodded.