![]() Parker attended the University of Florida at Gainesville. Parker himself was a tall, lean runner in college, standing 6'4" and weighing about 162 pounds, with a best time of 4:06 for the mile. Once A Runner is loosely based on Parker's college experience. While neither book ever acquired literary acclaim, Parker-and Quenton Cassidy-achieved a cult following among readers in the running community. ![]() 2015's "Racing the Rain" recounts Cassidy's early years. After taking a break from running, he begins training again in earnest trying to recapture the feeling and the glory of the past, this time through long-distance running. In "Again to Carthage," ten years have passed for Cassidy. He trains in private hoping to compete in disguise. In "Once a Runner" Cassidy is a college athlete who is suspended from school and prohibited from competing in his university's track meets. Thirty years later Parker follows the career of Cassidy in a second book Again to Carthage, published in late 2007. ![]() Ĭassidy, a passionate, obsessive runner, is first introduced in Once A Runner, published in 1978. The trilogy chronicles the struggles of Quenton Cassidy, a middle-distance runner. ![]() (born 1947) is an American writer and the author of the cult classic novel Once A Runner and the more recently published Again to Carthage and Racing the Rain. ![]()
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