The Memory of Running

ISBN: 0143036688

Author: McLarty, Ron

Condition: New

"Smithy is an American original, worthy of a place on the shelf just below your Hucks, your Holdens, your Yossarians." -Stephen KingEvery so often, a novel comes along that captures the publics imagination with a story that sweeps readers up and takes them on a thrilling, unforgettable ride. Ron McLartys The Memory of Running is this decades novel. By all accounts, especially his own, Smithson "Smithy" Ide is a loser. An overweight, friendless, chain-smoking, forty-three-year-old drunk, Smithys 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.