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The memory of running : a novel
- Title
- The memory of running : a novel / Ron McLarty.
- Author
- McLarty, Ron.
- Publication
- New York : Viking, 2005.
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- Description
- 357 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "Meet Smithson "Smithy" Ide, an overweight, friendless, chain-smoking, forty-three-year-old drunk who works as a quality control inspector at a toy-action-figure factory in Rhode Island. By all accounts, especially Smithy's own, he's a loser. Then, within the span of one week, his beloved parents are killed in a car crash, and Smithy learns that his emotionally troubled, long-lost sister, Bethany, has turned up in a morgue in Los Angeles. Unmoored by the loss of his entire family - Smithy had always hoped Bethany might return - he rolls down the driveway of his parents' house on his old Raleigh bicycle into an epic journey that will take him clear across the country." "As Smithy pedals across America - through New York City, St. Louis, Denver, and Phoenix, to name a few - he encounters humanity at its best and worst and begins to remember an early life that too many beers have blotted out. The baseball games, the home-cooked meals, the soothing presence of his salt-of-the-earth parents; none of it could transform the dark truth of his sister's madness."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Psychological fiction.
- Adventure fiction.
- ISBN
- 0670033634
- LCCN
- 2004049608
- OCLC
- ocm55095332
- SCSB-5140815
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries