The TRAX series tells a love story. Volumes one through three are set in the boroughs of New York, 1968-72. She was a skinny wisp of a girl, and he was a graduate student at NYU. They drove a Mustang, a Chevy pickup truck, owned two big dogs, and rented a studio in Alphabet City. He was a diamond courier after classes and she worked at the bank. The charm of the book is the events they each recall, and the way the details are remembered-after forty years.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
The Real Skinny: "We did not try to set records, but she could keep up"
The real skinny (according to Boy): Evie is a little too modest about this. I do not recall her running with Charlie and me, but she and I did run a lot. She could flat out fly. I do not know the distance, but I would guess it was about 5K. We did not try to set records, but she could keep up. Mister was the problem. Half the time we ran in the summer, we had to stop and rest for him numerous times. Occasionally I had to carry the poor Norwegian Elkhound home—sometimes a rest was not enough, he would flat out refuse to go on. Mister was cool with it in the fall and winter, but he did not think much about summer running.
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