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Racing the rain : a novel / John L. Parker, Jr.

by Parker, John L., Jr.

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Scribner, c2015.

Runners (Sports) -- Fiction.

Running -- Fiction.

Long-distance runners -- Fiction.

Running -- Training -- Fiction.

Small town life -- Fiction.

Florida -- Fiction.

352 p. ; 23 cm.

Prequel to: "Once a runner".

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.

Bildungsromans.

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