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The Long-Distance Runner Summary & Study Guide Description
The Long-Distance Runner Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
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The Long-Distance Runner Summary and Analysis
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When "The Long-Distance Runner" begins, Faith Asbury is preparing to leave home for a long-distance run. She leaves her two sons and a neighbor friend, Mrs. Raftery, watching television. Faith takes the train to Brighton Beach, changes her clothes in a locker, and runs along the boardwalk for a mile or more. Then she cuts away from the beach and heads into her old neighborhood in Brooklyn.
Almost immediately, Faith is surrounded by a crowd of African Americans who comment on her presence and appearance. She is undaunted by them, engaging them in conversation and commenting back in their language. She points out to the crowd her old apartment, and the Girl Scout Cynthia suggests that Faith go inside the building and meet the current tenants in Faith's childhood apartment.
On the first floor of the apartment building, Faith resists Cynthia's suggestion to visit Mrs. Luddy, the resident...
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