Pierson’s marvelously engaging account of her resumption of long-distance motorcycling after years of hiatus proves pure pleasure for the aficionado….
Books that take you to motorcycle netherworlds and make you look differently at life are even more rare. Good motorcycle books don’t come along often enough. and the way that an avocation-even one that seems incomprehensible to outsiders-can give life meaning. deeper concern is with reinventing the self at midlife. In electric, pitch-perfect prose, Pierson gives us rare insights into not only a subculture but also the deeply human craving for something more that drives it. The Man Who Would Stop at Nothing offers an intimate glimpse of an unusually independent yet supportive community as well as a revealing, unforgettable portrait of its most daring member. But why? Pierson, who rediscovered the joys of motorcycling in the midst of a personal crisis, puts on her helmet and joins Ryan in his element in order to understand his singular desire and discipline, his passion and his obsession. Perhaps the most determined of them is John Ryan, a magnetic, enigmatic man who loves nothing better than breaking records of amazing distance-at no small risk to himself and his health. In this candid, eloquent, sharply observed book, Melissa Holbrook Pierson introduces us to this strange endeavor and the men and women who live to ride impossibly long distances, eating up road, almost without cease. “World’s Toughest Motorcycle Riders”-long-distance motorcycling is not a pastime but an obsession. “Pierson is an even better writer than she is a rider.”- Boston Globe St Joseph's University (Brooklyn Voices Series).
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