In Lionel Shriver \'s entertaining send-up of today\'s cult of exercise--which not only encourages better health, but now like all religions also seems to promise meaning, social superiority, and eternal life--an aging husband\'s sudden obsession with extreme sport makes him unbearable.
This from a sedentary man in his sixties who\'s never.
After an ignominious early retirement, Remington announces to his wife Serenata that he\'s decided to run a marathon.
In Lionel Shriver \'s entertaining send-up of today\'s cult of exercise--which not only encourages better health, but now like all religions also seems to promise meaning, social superiority, and eternal life--an aging husband\'s sudden obsession with extreme sport makes him unbearable