Racing the Rain

by John L. Parker Jr.

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476769869
• ISBN13: 9781476769868
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.7"