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Racing the rain book6/26/2023 Cassidy’s loyalty to his friend is severely tested just as his opportunity to make his mark as a gifted runner comes to fruition. 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. Still, Cassidy absorbs Nelson’s view of running as a way of relating to and interacting with the natural world. 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. 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. Shirtless, barefoot, and brown as a berry, Cassidy is a skinny, mouthy kid with aspirations to be a great athlete. Quenton Cassidy’s first foot races are with nature itself: the summer storms that sweep through his subtropical neighborhood. 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.
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