Racing the Rain (41 page)

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2015 by John L. Parker, Jr.

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First Scribner hardcover edition July 2015

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Jacket design by Jaya Miceli

Jacket photographs: boys © Cheyenne Montgomery/Moment Open/Getty Images, background © Raul Touzon/
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Parker, John L., Jr. Racing the rain : a novel / John L. Parker. —First Scribner hardcover edition.

pages ; cm

Prequel to: Once a runner.

1. Runners (Sports)—Fiction. 2. Running—Fiction. 3. Sports stories. I. Title.

PS3566.A679R33 2015

813'.54—dc23

2015016535

ISBN 978-1-4767-6986-8

ISBN 978-1-4767-6987-5 (ebook)

One chapter of this book was published in much different form in the October 2006 issue of
Runner's World
.