Raymond's Run Summary
Toni Cade Bambara

Raymond's Run Summary

Toni Cade Bambara has long been admired for her short stories. "Temperamentally, I move toward the short story," Bambara has said, defining herself, like her protagonist Hazel Parker, as "a sprinter rather than a long distance runner." In "Raymond's Run," the young Hazel Parker relates the events of two days in her life in which she prepares for and runs a race. The story first appeared in 1971 in an anthology edited by Bambara...

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