在今天雨夜收到《雨中奔跑》。一切都是最好的安排！从“纽约时报畅销书的作者“一次跑步者”——“最好的小说写过关于跑步”(《跑者世界》)——小说的前传,一个世界级的运动员的成长的故事在1950年代和60年代在佛罗里达的黄金海岸。Quenton卡西迪的第一脚竞赛与大自然本身:夏季风暴,席卷他的亚热带地区。布朗赤膊、赤脚和浆果,卡西迪是一个枯瘦、爱说话的孩子与愿望成为一个伟大的运动员。他探索原始环境,沿着Loxahatchee河和附近的大西洋,他被捕捉器和纳尔逊”Loxahatchee的泰山,”著名的偏心居住的土地。在初中,很偶然,卡西迪发现长距离运行的能力,但他的梦想是成为一个篮球明星。卡西迪吸收纳尔逊的看法仍然运行的有关和与自然世界进行交互。虽然他是纳尔逊的警告的过去、卡西迪驳斥了故事迷信的八卦,直到他的小镇是震惊的消失一个杰出的法官和他的妻子。卡西迪忠于他的朋友是严峻的考验一样他的成名的机会一个有天赋的运动员来实现。约翰·帕克的前传“纽约时报”的畅销书“一旦一个跑步者”生动地捕捉一个跑步者是如何形成和身体耐力,决心和心态他发展成为一个冠军。“赛车雨”是一个史诗般的经典成熟的环境和塑造我们的友谊。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 with aspirations to be a great athlete. 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. 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. Still, Cassidy absorbs Nelson's view of running as a way of relating to and interacting with the natural world. 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. Cassidy's loyalty to his friend is severely tested just as his opportunity to make his mark as a gifted runner comes to fruition. John Parker's prequel to the "New York Times "bestseller "Once a Runner" vividly captures how a runner is formed and the physical endurance, determination, and mindset he develops on the way to becoming a champion. "Racing the Rain" is an epic coming-of-age classic about the environments and friendships that shape us all.