Then, in the space of one week, he gave a reading of his new novel and ran a 5-K in Charleston, West Virginia, felt fluish, dispatched some final changes to his publisher, began coughing up, in his words, "raspberry jelly," and ended up in the hospital with myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart. He continued to tinker with the manuscript until early September. Parker wrote the closing of Again to Carthage this spring-the lines written longhand while sitting in a canvas chair outside his Florida bungalow, his winter home. And among runners, of course, there's Pheidippides. Dreading "the curse of the ninth," Mahler was afraid to complete his Ninth Symphony. Ulysses Grant died shortly after writing the last line of his memoir. An artist's crowning achievement is often fatal. finished the endlessly awaited sequel to his beloved first novel, Once a Runner.
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