The Memory of Running

✍ Ron McLarty 📂 Fiction 📅 1987 🏛 Penguin Publishing Group 🌐 English ⚖ 189 KB 👁 1 views

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 ov

✍ McLarty, Ron 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🌐 UND ⚖ 177 KB

The Memory of Running

✍ McLarty, Ron 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Penguin (Non-Classics) 🌐 English ⚖ 236 KB

SUMMARY: Ron McLarty has joined the ranks of writers of the quirky hero with The Memory of Running. His hero, Smithy Ide, is in the grand tradition of Ignatius J. Reilly of A Confederacy of Dunces and Quoyle of The Shipping News. What these gentlemen have in common is their lumpen-loser looks, their

The memory of running: a novel

✍ McLarty, Ron 📂 Fiction 📅 2010;2005 🏛 Viking 🌐 UND ⚖ 186 KB 👁 2 views

Working as a quality control inspector at a toy factory in Rhode Island, friendless alcoholic Smithy Ide considers himself a loser until a tragic event prompts him to set off on an epic cross-country bicycle journey that promises him a final chance to become the man he has always wanted to be.</div>

The memory of running: a novel

✍ Ron McLarty 📂 Fiction 📅 2004;2005 🏛 Viking 🌐 English ⚖ 194 KB 👁 2 views

SUMMARY: Once in a great while, a story comes along that has everything: plot, setting, and, most important of all, the kind of characters that sweep readers up and take them on a thrilling, unforgettable ride. Well, get ready for Ron McLarty?s The Memory of Runningbecause, as Stephen King wrote i

The memory of running: a novel

✍ Ron McLarty 📂 Fiction 📅 2010;2005 🏛 Viking 🌐 English ⚖ 192 KB 👁 2 views

Working as a quality control inspector at a toy factory in Rhode Island, friendless alcoholic Smithy Ide considers himself a loser until a tragic event prompts him to set off on an epic cross-country bicycle journey that promises him a final chance to become the man he has always wanted to be.</div>