![]() 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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