The Running-Shaped Hole: A Memoir

A searching, self-deprecating memoir of a man on his way to eating himself to death before discovering the anxiety and fulfillment of distance running

When Robert Earl Stewart sees his pants lying across the end of his bed, they remind him of a flag draped over a coffin-his coffin. At thirty-eight years old he weighs 368 pounds and is slowly eating himself to death. The only thing that helps him deal with the fear and shame is eating. But one day, following a terrifying doctor's appointment,...