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"I've always chased my dad, chased after his love, chased him through his many changes. I chased him even though I thought I used to be running in the other way.Today, even though he is gone, I run after him still. I know he is the main element to my flexibility." To athletes around the world, Dr. George Sheehan, author of the landmark New York Times best owner Jogging and Being, was nothing in short supply of a guru - the country's "greatest philosopher of sport". But to his boy Andrew, who experienced spent his entire boyhood desiring the attention and approval of emotionally distant dad, he was an incomprehensible paradox: a lifelong loner, who was now sunning himself in the limelight of the nation's press; a hero to a huge number, who seemed to haven't any time for his own boy. The happenings that transformed George Sheehan from doctor to family man to best-selling writer and mass media magnet began at the depths of what we would now call a midlife problems, when he rediscovered a vintage love - going. Twenty-five years after his days and nights on a higher institution cross-country team, he appreciated how running made him feel free, and began beating a solitary course down his suburban roads. With running as his new religious beliefs, the formerly calm, withdrawn man became an improbable evangelist, changing a sedentary nation to the theology of fitness, and in the process becoming an internationally known figure. But the flexibility he within running was not enough, and one day he remaining his family, having chosen that life was "an experiment of 1," and it was time for him to get started on living it. Furious and disillusioned after many years of long lasting his father's self-absorption, and injured by his noticeable indifference, Andrew experienced long since started the search for his own version of flexibility, looking first to drugs and later to alcohol. By his 20s he was a established alcoholic. By his 30s his matrimony had fallen aside and he was drinking more heavily than ever before. It was at that time that his dad threw him a lifeline. Although he was struggling with the cancer that could eventually end his life, Dr. Sheehan was the first to notice his son's pain, and to get in touch with him. With this stunningly candid reserve, Andrew Sheehan explains the process by which these two men carefully and lovingly rebuilt their romance. And in the effort to understand and forgive the dark part of his father's psyche, Andrew shows how he emerged to understand, and to transcend, his own. A gracefully written paean to the restoration power of forgiveness, a memoir that will resonate with any "fallible" parent or guardian or child, Going after the Hawk traces the arduous steps that hold father and boy down the hard highway to resolution, restoration, and love.
