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From the critically acclaimed author of Be Safe I Love You comes a dark and breathtaking novel of love, friendship, and survival set in the red light district of Athens in the 1980s that Garth Greenwall calls "a ferocious, brilliant book."Running brings together an ensemble of outsiders who get by as "runners" - hustlers who sell tourists on low-end accommodations for a small commission and a place to stay. Bridey Sullivan, a young American woman who has fled a peculiar and traumatic upbringing in Washington State, takes up with a queer British couple, the poet Milo Rollack and Eton drop-out Jasper Lethe. Slipping in and out of homelessness, addiction, and under-the-table jobs, they create their own kind of family as they struggle to survive.



About the Author

Cara Hoffman

Cara Hoffman is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Running (a New York Times Editor's Choice) , Be Safe I Love You (nominated for a Folio Prize) and So Much Pretty (New York Times Best Suspense Novel of 2011) . She has written for Rolling Stone, the New York Times, The Paris Review, and National Public Radio, among others, and has been a visiting writer at University of Oxford. She lives in Manhattan and teaches at the Stonecoast MFA program at University of Southern Maine.



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