The Memory of Running
The Memory of Running
Author: Ron McLarty
Desc: 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 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. (From the publisher.)