| The Memory of Running Contributor(s): McLarty, Ron (Author) |
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ISBN: 0143036688 ISBN-13: 9780143036685 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2005 Annotation: McLarty pens the story of Smithson Ide, a 43-year-old, 279-pound supervisor at a GI Joe factory, who begins a cross-country journey on his old Raleigh bicycle to retrieve the body of his beautiful, mentally disturbed sister. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Humorous - General - Fiction | Action & Adventure - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.14" W x 8.22" (0.6 lbs) 384 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 88434 Reading Level: 4.6 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 15.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |