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Title
Once a Runner: A Novel
Files
Description
Inspired by the author’s experience as a collegiate champion, the story focuses on Quenton Cassidy, a competitive runner at fictional Southeastern University whose lifelong dream is to run a four-minute mile. He is less than a second away when the turmoil of the Vietnam War era intrudes into the staid recesses of his school’s athletic department. After he becomes involved in an athletes’ protest, Cassidy is suspended from his track team. Under the tutelage of his friend and mentor, Bruce Denton, a graduate student and former Olympic gold medalist, Cassidy gives up his scholarship, his girlfriend, and possibly his future to withdraw to a monastic retreat in the countryside and begin training for the race of his life against the greatest miler in history.
ISBN
978-1416597896
Publication Date
1990
Publisher
Cedarwinds Publishing Company
Recommended Citation
Parker, John, "Once a Runner: A Novel" (1990). Prairie Striders Library Collection. 277.
https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/prairiestriders_pubs/277