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The Memory of Running

The Memory of Running

McLarty, Ron

Paperback

HumorMystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction

ISBN10: 0143036688
ISBN13: 9780143036685
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: Dec 27 2005
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.14 Depth: 8.22
Language: English
Smithy is an American original, worthy of a place on the shelf just below your Hucks, your Holdens, your Yossarians. --Stephen King

Every so often, a novel comes along that captures the public's imagination with a story that sweeps readers up and takes them on a thrilling, unforgettable ride. Ron McLarty's The Memory of Running is this decade's novel. By all accounts, especially his own, Smithson Smithy Ide is a loser. An overweight, friendless, chain-smoking, forty-three-year-old drunk, Smithy's life becomes completely unhinged when he loses his parents and long-lost sister within the span of one week. Rolling down the driveway of his parents' house in Rhode Island on his old Raleigh bicycle to escape his grief, the emotionally bereft Smithy embarks on an epic, hilarious, luminous, and extraordinary journey of discovery and redemption.

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