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Title:Life at These Speeds
Author:Jeremy Jackson
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Anniversary Edition
Pages:Pages: 352 pages
Published:July 1st 2003 by St. Martins Press-3PL (first published 2002)
Categories:Fiction. Sports. Young Adult. Coming Of Age. Literary Fiction

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In eighth grade Kevin Schuler is a popular kid with a decent, if not stellar, record on the track. Yet after fate takes him off a bus that crashes and kills his fellow students, including his girlfriend, Kevin inexplicably becomes a track phenomenon. Separated from his memory and distanced from his own life, he effortlessly smashes records and gains national attention, until he finds that he can no more remain apart from himself than he can from the ground beneath his feet.


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Original Title: Life at These Speeds
ISBN: 0312313667 (ISBN13: 9780312313661)
Edition Language: English

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Some kind of wonderful! Really, just a sweet sweet book - lovely tone, funny stuff, quirky characters, nice setting. All about a boy on a middle school track team whose whole grade dies in a bus accident and then finds that he has superduper speed and a total loss of memory. Sounds more out there than it really is. It's more slow and dreamy, about the next four years of his life as he breaks track records and tries to piece together his fractured memory and life. I can't believe it's this guy's

This beautifully written book focuses on something that really intrigues me: how our perception of the absolute, 100% truth can be distorted for a variety of reasons: trauma, spite, grief, joy, love, etc. Reading about a high school kid dealing with this [amidst a whole community dealing with it] is pretty amazing. readdddd iittttttt. Do it.

This is a wonderful book, and I think is a first time effort by a younger writer about a high school track star who runs despite an event about which he feels guilty. Sorry for the circumlocution, but no spoilers here! The names of some of the characters are really funny (Bobolink Crustacean, for example) but the descriptions of what it's like to run races, particularly middle distance events, is really interesting. Particularly for someone who never was able to get into the runner's mindset. I

This book got me inspired to run cross country or track and field...

I am a runner, so I went into this book with extremely high expectations. When I first started it (as in, the first chapter), I wasn't blown away - I had a hard time relating to Kevin, to figuring out what his mindset was, and I was ready to punch my boyfriend for giving me the book. However, as I kept reading, I became engrossed in Kevin, in his journey, in how he was handling things (or not handling them), and all of the (view spoiler)[ unethical things going on by the school district and

I let this sit on my shelf for quite a while before finally picking it up but what a page turner this quirky first novel is. Jackson took a lot of chances with this story, weird names for characters, way sophisticated dialogue for 7th graders but it all made for an increasingly compelling read. I have passed the book on twice now as a must read. And an ending that chokes the reader up as powerfully as the final pages of Cormac McCarthy's The Road. This novel deserves a much wider audience.

I'm waffling between giving this book a 3 and a 4..... parts of this were truly inspiring and inspired, but parts of this dragged a bit.The story is told by Kevin, who starts the book as an 8th grader and finishes it as a senior. It's cleverly told, and his voice is an unusual one - he has a very unique voice, one that seems older than his age. After a spring track meet, he heads home in his parent's car while the rest of his teammates take the van - they end up going over a bridge and no one