The Memory of Running

"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.



Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Published: 12/27/2005
ISBN: 9780143036685
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.14w x 0.70d

Review Citations: New York Times 01/29/2006 pg. 24

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 88434 / Memory of Running: A Novel
Reading Level: 4.6 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 15