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The Memory of Running

Book information

Publisher
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Year
2005
ISBN
0143036688, 9780143036685, 9780786568321
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1903322 bytes)
Pages
366\366
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Every decade seems to produce a novel 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. “Smithy is an American original, worthy of a place on the shelf just below your Hucks, your Holdens, your Yossarians.” —Stephen King “Endearing . . . it’s a ride worth taking.” —USA Today “In The Memory of Running, professional actor and long aspiring novelist Ron McLarty has invented a character so fully and elegantly defined that the book soars with originality and life.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Captivating . . . McLarty unspools passage after passage of devastating grace and melancholy, and his taciturn hero hooks himself to your heart.” —Entertainment Weekly 1......Page 7 2......Page 16 3......Page 20 4......Page 27 5......Page 30 6......Page 35 7......Page 41 8......Page 49 9......Page 54 10......Page 64 11......Page 71 12......Page 78 13......Page 82 14......Page 94 15......Page 102 16......Page 106 17......Page 109 18......Page 112 19......Page 115 20......Page 125 21......Page 127 22......Page 130 23......Page 136 24......Page 140 25......Page 147 26......Page 151 27......Page 160 28......Page 162 29......Page 167 30......Page 169 31......Page 171 32......Page 181 33......Page 183 34......Page 192 35......Page 195 36......Page 198 37......Page 204 38......Page 209 39......Page 212 INTERLUDE......Page 221 40......Page 223 41......Page 228 42......Page 233 43......Page 242 44......Page 245 45......Page 248 46......Page 254 47......Page 255 48......Page 258 49......Page 260 50......Page 267 51......Page 271 52......Page 273 53......Page 274 54......Page 283 55......Page 285 56......Page 287 57......Page 289 58......Page 295 59......Page 301 60......Page 304 61......Page 306 62......Page 312 63......Page 314 64......Page 323 65......Page 329 66......Page 333 67......Page 335 68......Page 338 69......Page 341 70......Page 343 71......Page 344 72......Page 348 73......Page 352 74......Page 356 75......Page 359

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