Life at These Speeds A Novel [Paperback]

The basis for the major motion picture1 Mile to You

Refreshing...Reminds us that whether we run, play football, sing or write, we need to find the joy in what we do. Chicago Sun-Times

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.

Raised on a cattle farm in the Ozark borderlands of Missouri, JEREMY JACKSON is a graduate of Vassar College and the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop, where he was a Teaching-Writing Fellow. He is the recipient of the Henfield Prize and the James A. Michener/Copernicus Society of America Fellowship. The first chapter of1 Mile to Youappeared inThe Greensboro Reviewand won a Henfield-Transatlantic Prize. Jackson lives in Iowa.

Quietly haunting...magisterial...brilliantly satisfying...a terrific first novel. The Boston Globe

Definitely my favorite book! A beautiful tribute to all runners, and a reminder that being true to yourself is more important than setting records. Alan Webb, national record holder for the high school mile, at 3:53.43

This story will leave you cheering. Seventeen

Full of whimsy and tragicomedy of high school. The first book in years whose ending made me weep. David Schickler, author ofKissing in Manhattan

Refreshing...reminds us that whether we run, play football, sing or write, we need to find the joy in what we do. Chicago Sun-Times

Entertaining, engaging, and finally, moving. James Hynes, author ofThe Lecturer's Tale

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