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.



Author: Ron McLarty
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 12/27/2005
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.14w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780143036685
ISBN10: 0143036688
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Humorous | General
- Fiction | Action & Adventure
- Fiction | Family Life | General

About the Author
Ron McLarty is an award-winning actor and playwright best known for his appearances on television series, including Law & Order, Sex and the City, The Practice, and Judging Amy. He has appeared in films and on the stage, where he has directed many of his own plays.