Step by Step : A Pedestrian Memoir

Step by Step
Author(s): Lawrence Block

Before Lawrence Block was the author of bestselling novels featuring unforgettable characters such as hit man Keller, private investigator Matthew Scudder, burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, and time traveler Evan Tanner, he was a walker. As a child he walked home from school, as a college student he walked until he was able to buy his first car, and, as an adult, he ran marathons until he discovered the sport of racewalking.

Through the lens of his walking adventures—in 24-hour races, on a pilgrimage through Spain, and just about everywhere you can imagine—Block shares his heartwarming personal story about life's trials and tribulations, discomforts and successes, that truly lets readers walk a mile in the master of mystery's shoes.

Review(s):
“Block’s memoir is a worthy addition to his impressive list of accomplishments.”
“Block’s exercise of memory is a delight compounded of rumination and amusement.”
“Amusing....A peripatetic but never pedestrian memoir.”
“Unpretentiously serious, offhandedly funny, and unfailingly entertaining.”
“Block knows that character and ambience are the heart and soul of crime fiction, but unlike so many of his brethren, he also maintaines a healthy respect for plot.”
“Block has never been better.”
“One of the best writers now working the beat, Lawrence Block has done something new and remarkable with the private eye novel.”
“One of the most accomplished writers of mystery and suspense fiction in America.”
“A superior storyteller. . . . Block has an awareness of the pain and pleasure of living. It is a gift not all authors have.”



ISBN:  9780061774713