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A rare look into an enigmatic accountant from the Tennessee backwoods who morphs into Lazarus Lake, the world's most notorious race maker.The Endurance Artist is an all-access pass to the world's most grueling races and the mastermind behind them.Gary Cantrell, better known by the nom de guerre Lazarus Lake, has been described as a ""hillbilly genius"" and the ""Leonardo di Vinci of pain."" His Barkley Marathons is considered the most difficult ultramarathon ever devised, a fight club in the wilderness run in secret. With books hidden in the woods, a cigarette-start, and elevation gain that amounts to summiting Mount Everest twice, the Barkley defies convention. Big's Backyard Ultra pushes human beings to their absolute limit on a four-mile loop that is run every hour starting on the hour until there is just one runner standing--most recently, a high school teacher who ran 450 miles without sleep.Author Jared Beasley uncovers the world of a recluse hell-bent on rewriting the rules to reveal a life reimagined and failure reinvented. Laz calls into question our obsession with winning and fairness, success and failure, and whether these ideas handicap potential.

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Steve Quinn is a Philadelphia-based voice actor who has been telling stories his whole life. Specializing in audiobook narration, he's a native Texan who moved to the big city to pursue comedy. After years of stand-up, improv, sketch comedy, and being extra nice to the wealthy elite at his day job at the front desk of a fancy hotel, he became a full-time narrator. When he's not sitting in his tiny booth reading out loud, he can be found playing with his four-year-old daughter, learning Dave Matthews covers on the guitar, and pursuing his never-ending love of close-up card magic.

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