“I delved into my own athletic history for this book,” he says of the young character he was writing about. He hopes this book will keep his readers in touch with that world as well. He hikes and goes mountain biking when he can’t run.īut his novels keep him in touch with the running world. With bad knees, he can run only every three or four days. He wrote Once a Runner in less than a year, but he’s not able to put in marathon writing days as he used to. “The one thing I’ve noticed as I continue on into decrepitude: Writing is kind of hard work,” Parker says. He spent five years scribing his newest novel. Writing Racing the Rain didn’t take as long as it did to write Again to Carthage, but that doesn’t mean the book came easily. “It felt a little weird to be up in Maine writing about a story taking place in the subtropics,” he says. The novel takes placce in a fictional town on Florida’s Gold Coast. He wrote half of it while he was in Florida and the other half in Bar Harbor, Maine. Parker, 67, describes his latest work as encompassing “the process of becoming an athlete.” He spoke to RW about the new book from his place in High Springs, Florida. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play
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