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John L Parker
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
From the author of the New York Times bestseller 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
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Series
Once a runner novels volume 1
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Distance runner Quenton Cassidy is suspended from the track team for his involvement in an athlete protest and risks his future prospects to train on a monastic retreat with an Olympic medalist.