Harlan's Race

yawed to a knife-edge, disappearing into the blue. Then, with one easy rowing stroke of the wings, the creature rolled into view again. The dance of the whole flock was like a glimmer of slow white lightning moving away across the bay.
    Our eyes followed the gulls.
    Somehow, like them, we would stay alive.
    Like them, we belong to a certain sky, that is ever our refuge and our home.

About This Book
    Harlan’s Race was created “hands on” with computer J. 1 print technology.
    I wrote it on an Apple Macintosh SE and Apple PowerBook 170. My double-density disks traveled to the MacIIx of Barbara Brown Desktop Publishing, where they were reformatted and typeset using Aldus PageMaker. Fonts: Century Schoolbook and Radiant.
    Jacket art and illustrations were created by Laguna Beach artist Jay Fraley, on a Macintosh 8500. He used the Photoshop program to manipulate his photographs of the exact model Tiger track shoes mentioned in the book.
    Disks and film containing finished text and art went to Banta for printing this paperback on their Cameron-system belt press.
    To me — who first smelled printer’s ink in 1956 in a traditional composing room filled with clattering Linotype machines and splatters of lead — the relative ease and cleanness of desktop book production is a wonder.
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    Harlan Brown is a tough, conservative track coach- hiding from his past at a small college. Billy Sive is a brilliant young runner who is homosexual—and doesn’t mind who knows it. When they fall in love, they will enter a race against hate and prejudice that takes them to the ’76 Olympics and a shocking, shattering conclusion.
    With ten million copies in 7 languages, The Front Runner is the most celebrated gay love story of all time.
    ISBN: 0-9641099-6-4
    The classic novel by PATRICIA NELL WARREN
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    The Front Runner — 20th Anniversary Edition (Fiction) By Patricia Nell Warren
    Collectors will be glad to hear that this classic, first published in 1974, is available in a beautiful 20th-anniversary leatherbound limited edition, signed and numbered by the author.
    ISBN 0-9641099-6-4................................................... $155.00 net
    The Fancy Dancer — (Trade Paperback)
    By Patricia Nell Warren
    This 1976 bestseller was one of the first novels to portray with unflinching honesty a Catholic priest’s struggle with homosexuality. The story, set in a small conservative Western town, has stayed a steady backlist seller with Bantam and Plume. We are proud to bring it out in our own quality tradeback.
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