Once a Runner - Softcover

Parker, John L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0915297019 ISBN 13: 9780915297016

Publisher: Cedarwinds Publishing Company, 1990

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

“Part training manual, part religious tract, part love story, and all about running, Once a Runner is so inspiring it could be banned as a performance-enhancing drug.” —Benjamin Cheever, author of Strides

“By far the most accurate fictional portrayal of the world of the serious runner...a marvelous description of the way it really is.” —Kenny Moore, Sports Illustrated

“The best piece of running fiction around. Beg, borrow, or buy a copy, and you’ll never need another motivator.” —Dave Langlais, Runner’s World

"The best novel ever written about running."--Runner's World

About the Author:

John L. Parker, Jr has written for Outside, Runner's World, Running Times, and numerous other publications in the United States. He was the Southeaster Conference mile champion three times, and the United States Track and Field Federation national champion in the steeplechase. Parker has been a practicing lawyer, a newspaper reporter and columnist, a speech writer for then Governor Bob Graham, an editor and a publisher. In 2007, Again to Carthage, the sequel to Once a Runner, sold out in the United States in three weeks. Parker is now working on the prequel, Cold Island Blues. He lives in Gainesville, Florida, and Bar Harbor, Maine.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cedarwinds Publishing Company
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0915297019
• ISBN 13: 9780915297016
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 225