Racing the Rain
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
From the author of the New York Timesbestselling Once a Runnercomes that novel's prequel, the story of a world-class athlete coming of age.
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From the author of the New York Timesbestselling Once a Runnercomes that novel's prequel, the story of a world-class athlete coming of age.
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From the author of the New York Times bestselling Once a Runner -"The best novel ever written about running" ( Runner's World )-comes that novel's prequel, the story of a world-class athlete coming of age in the 1950s and 60s on Florida's Gold Coast.Quenton Cassidy's first foot races are with nature itself: the summer storms that sweep through his subtropical neighborhood. Shirtless, barefoot, and brown as a berry, Cassidy is a skinny, mouthy kid with aspirations to be a great athlete. As he explores his primal surroundings, along the Loxahatchee River and the nearby Atlantic Ocean, he is befriended by Trapper Nelson, "the Tarzan of the Loxahatchee," a well-known eccentric who lives off the land.
In junior high school, quite by chance, Cassidy discovers an ability to run long distances, but his real dream is to be a basketball star. Still, Cassidy absorbs Nelson's view of running as a way of relating to and interacting with the natural world. Though he is warned of Nelson's checkered past, Cassidy dismisses the stories as superstitious gossip, until his small town is stunned by the disappearance of a prominent judge and his wife. Cassidy's loyalty to his friend is severely tested just as his opportunity to make his mark as a gifted runner comes to fruition.
John Parker's prequel to the New York Times bestseller Once a Runner vividly captures how a runner is formed and the physical endurance, determination, and mindset he develops on the way to becoming a champion. Racing the Rain is an epic coming-of-age classic about the environments and friendships that shape us all.
Autoren-Porträt von John L. Parker
Parker, Jr. John L.John L. Parker, Jr. has written for Outside, Runner's World, and numerous other publications. A graduate of the University of Florida's College of Journalism as well as its College of Law, Parker has been a practicing attorney, a newspaper reporter and columnist, a speechwriter for then Governor Bob Graham, and editorial director of Running Times magazine. The author of Once a Runner, Again to Carthage, and Racing the Rain, he lives in Gainesville, Florida, and Bar Harbor, Maine.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: John L. Parker
- 2015, 368 Seiten, Maße: 15,1 x 22,4 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Simon & Schuster US
- ISBN-10: 1476769869
- ISBN-13: 9781476769868
- Erscheinungsdatum: 14.07.2015
Sprache:
Englisch
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