From the author of the New York Times bestselling Once a Runner āacclaimed by Runner's World as "the best novel ever written about running"ācomes 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 is the skinniest boy in school, and also one of the fastest. Cassidy spends his afternoons exploring his primal surroundings: the local river, the nearby ocean, the lakes, swamps, and forests that dominate the landscape of the Florida everglades. While adventuring, Cassidy befriends Trapper Nelson, an iconoclastic hunter who lives in an isolated compound on the riverbank.By junior high, Cassidy dreams of becoming a basketball player, but Nelson's influence runs deep and Cassidy begins to view running as a way to interact with the natural world. Warned of Nelson's checkered past, Cassidy dismisses the stories as hearsay, until his town is rocked by the disappearance and apparent murder 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.Hailed by National Book Award winner Bob Shacochis as a "lovely novel that reminds us that what is most valuable is life is the spirit to accomplish impossible things, " Racing the Rain explores a small town's secrets while vividly capturing the physical endurance, determination, and mindset required of a champion. "A celebration of the purity of the sport" ( Fort Worth Star-Telegram ), it is an epic coming-of-age classic about the environments and friendships that shape us all.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Authorās Note
- Chapter 1: The Very Edge of Things
- Chapter 2: Ants
- Chapter 3: Parched
- Chapter 4: Nuclear Oblivion
- Chapter 5: Church
- Chapter 6: Reggie Harris
- Chapter 7: Wild Man
- Chapter 8: Pot Roast
- Chapter 9: Up the Loxahatchee
- Chapter 10: Chip Newspickle
- Chapter 11: Coach Bickerstaff
- Chapter 12: Status of a Sort
- Chapter 13: The Jupiter Hilton
- Chapter 14: Reeks & Wrecks
- Chapter 15: Moccasin Cove
- Chapter 16: Track Disaster
- Chapter 17: Long Weekend
- Chapter 18: Faint Glory
- Chapter 19: No Quarter
- Chapter 20: Pain and Humiliation
- Chapter 21: All-Comers Comeuppance
- Chapter 22: First Cut
- Chapter 23: Ron Lefaro
- Chapter 24: House, Satch, and Dee-Troit
- Chapter 25: The Bleachers
- Chapter 26: Thunderous Ascension
- Chapter 27: The List
- Chapter 28: Unforgettable Day, 11/22/63
- Chapter 29: Basketball Jones
- Chapter 30: Arguably a Star
- Chapter 31: Bag Boy Summer
- Chapter 32: Glorious Season
- Chapter 33: Dewey Stoddard
- Chapter 34: Bob Bickerstaff Redux
- Chapter 35: Changing of the Guard
- Chapter 36: Winding Up
- Chapter 37: Trapper Nelson, Jr.
- Chapter 38: Endless Summer
- Chapter 39: At Long Last
- Chapter 40: Cross-Country Interlude
- Chapter 41: Basketball Again
- Chapter 42: Cross-Country Champion
- Chapter 43: Repercussions
- Chapter 44: Disaster
- Chapter 45: Goodbye to all that
- Chapter 46: The Sad Truth
- Chapter 47: A Plan
- Chapter 48: Putt-Putt
- Chapter 49: What You Are
- Chapter 50: The Challenge
- Chapter 51: Dual Meet Standout
- Chapter 52: Dual Meet Blues
- Chapter 53: One Night off Manalapan
- Chapter 54: Donāt Say a Word
- Chapter 55: Rankings
- Chapter 56: RegionalsāMizner Redux
- Chapter 57: Calamity
- Chapter 58: Crisis of Conscience
- Chapter 59: Time Trial
- Chapter 60: The New Paralegal
- Chapter 61: Loose Lips
- Chapter 62: The Night Before
- Chapter 63: Sprung
- Chapter 64: The Race
- Chapter 65: Doobey Hall
- Acknowledgments
- About John L. Parker, Jr.
- Copyright
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