A delightful account of what happened when Cameron Stracher made it his goal to get home in time for dinner five times a week over the course of ten months . . . The payoff for Mr. Stracher is undeniable
The Wall Street Journal
Charming and insightful
The New York Times
Stracher writes with humor and honesty about the pitfalls and triumphs of trying to have your family and eat with them too.
Julie Powell, author of Julie & Julia
Busy fathers everywhere will immediately identify with this book, and hopefully will heed its message. Well done, Cameron–someone needed to write this book. Now dads everywhere need to read it.
Mike Greenberg, author of Why My Wife Thinks I’m an Idiot
An ultimately hopeful, joyful picture of what contemporary family life can be.
Booklist
Praise for Double Billing:
Stracher’s characterizations are vivid and humane, his criticisms are convincing and his observations of workaday lawyering are as sharp as the corners of a legal brief.
-Publisher’s Weekly.
An eloquent report on laws current habits.
-Kirkus Reviews
“This is a wise, elegant, and quite wonderful book…’Bartleby the Serivener’ is still read in law schools all over the country. “Double Billing should be too.”
–John Jay Osborn, “San Francisco Chronicle; author of “The Paper Chase”
Stracher is a wonderful writer with a terrific eye and a voice of absolute grace. I can’t remember when I enjoyed a book as much as this one.”
–Lisa Scottoline, author of “Mistaken Identity
“Double Billing may do for associates what Scott Turow’s “One L did for elite law schools. Surely it will become necessary reading of the law students and young lawyers entering that world…The book is something else, too. It’s a good read.”
“The American Lawyer”
“If you prefer your lawyering without criminally short skirts and workdays that culminate in impromptu bathroom-stall dance numbers, try this scathingly funny and grim portrait of the legal profession…”Double Billing should be required reading for the aspiring rich and shameless.”— Entertainment Weekly
Praise for “The Water Wars”:
Stracher has created a realistic dystopian world ravaged by drought and taken from today’s headlines. … The fast-paced plot, nonstop action, and hopeful conclusion will appeal to teens.
-Library Journal
“THE WATER WARS is a gripping environmental thriller with a too-real message. Cameron Stracher tells a story with quick pacing, compelling characters and a vision of a frightening future.”
- Howard Gordon, Co-Creator “Homeland,” and Executive Producer, ’24, ‘
“Let us pray that the world which Cameron Stracher has invented in THE WATER WARS is testament solely to his pure, wild, and brilliant imagination, and not his ability to see the future. I was parched just reading it.”
— Laurie David, academy award winning producer of An Inconvenient Truth, and author of The Down to Earth Guide to Global Warming
In the tradition of THE HUNGER GAMES, Cameron Stracher’s WATER WARS is both a trenchant cautionary tale of a world drained of its most precious resource and a rousing adventure-story of the plucky young heroes who set out to save it. Perfect for young readers-but with more than enough substance for mom and dad as well.
–Justin Cronin, author of THE PASSAGE
“Brilliant and terrifying, Stracher’s water-desperate world will make readers re-think letting the water run before a shower or while brushing their teeth. As Will and Vera criss-cross this world, it becomes evident that Stracher has truly considered all of the different outcomes that a water shortage would have on a society. Stracher has created a large cast of characters with enormous skill that has each person standing out from the rest.”
–Kate Girard”RT” (01/05/2011)
The action here will take your breath away, with chase scenes and double-crosses… Author Cameron Stracher’s dark novel is a page-turner and I was up way past my bedtime reading it. It’s easy to visualize the Armageddon-like landscape that Stracher describes, and it’s all-too-easy to imagine the futuristic scenario that makes water so precious.
Go without food for three weeks and you’ll lose a lot of weight. Go without water for three days and you’ll die… Don’t consider going without “The “Water Wars”” at all.
–Terri Schichenmeyer”Detroit Lakes Tribune” (02/11/2011)
The thematic impact of The “Water Wars” was just as intense and disturbing, if not more so, than the Hunger Games novels. Readers of all ages should read this stark novel about greed and ignorance and apathy a wonderful book to initiate discussions (in classrooms, between parents and their children, book clubs, etc.) about environmental stewardship and how the actions of one person can change the world for the better…
–Paul Allen”Explorations: The Barnes & Noble SciFi & Fantasy Blog” (01/11/2011)
Heart Racing: If finishing The Hunger Games left a gaping hole in your life, Cameron Stracher’s “Water Wars” aims to fill it. Set in a dystopian future where a lack of water trumps all else, this adventure tale will keep you turning pages far into the night
.–Angela Matano”Campus Circle Newspaper” (02/11/2011)
Praise for “Kings of the Road”:
“In his lively, informative history, Cameron Stracher traces the boom of running culture in America back to the 1970s when a trio of single-minded athletes — Frank Shorter, Bill Rodgers, and Alberto Salazar — captured the national spotlight with their intense passion for pounding the road…Stracher writes with a true fan’s contagious enthusiasm.”
— Newsweek/The Daily Beast
“A focused survey of three unmatched American long-distance runners… Essential reading for runners both competitive and casual.”
– Kirkus Reviews
“Kings of the Road is about marathon legends. It’s about running Fast. It’s about Will. It’s about the Real. It’s about drama of the finest kind.”
– Bernd Heinrich, author of Why We Run and Racing the Antelope
“In Kings of the Road, Cameron Stracher recaptures the wonder, energy, and excitement of American road racing from 1972 to 1982. With amazing detail and action, he follows Frank Shorter, Bill Rodgers, and Alberto Salazar to their greatest victories in an era when they became national sports icons.”
–Amby Burfoot, 1968 Boston Marathon winner and Runner’s World Editor-at-Large
“Combining a novelist’s eye for character and detail with an historian’s insight into patterns and connections, Cameron Stracher’s Kings of the Road delivers a rollicking, informed account of the rise of the American running movement. Bringing the 1970’s alive in all their brokenness, weirdness, and hope, Stracher shows how distance running helped define a generation. Kings of the Road rekindles Baby Boomer memories while introducing younger readers to an overlooked piece of sporting and social history.”
– John Brant, author of Duel in the Sun and co-author (with Alberto Salazar) of 14 Minutes
Winner, Book of the Year from American Track & Field Writers
Praise for “The Curve”:
“Is ‘The Curve’ a searing indictment of the industry of legal education? Or an idealistic vision of the possibilities that remain for those whose hearts are pure? It’s both, of course, and a book that only such talented insiders as Blachman and Stracher could have written. But more important it’s a great read. Every page, and frequently every paragraph, made me stop to laugh or wince, or more often both. Painfully funny, surprisingly touching, and not just knowing but wise.” (Kermit Roosevelt, Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School, and author of Allegiance and In the Shadow of the Law)
