The memory of running : [a novel] / Ron McLarty.

Author/creator McLarty, Ron author.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Penguin Books, 2006, ©2004.
Description358, 5 pages ; 21 cm
Subjects
Life change events--Fiction.
Loss (Psychology)--Fiction.
Sisters--Death. --Fiction.
Middle-aged men--Fiction.
Overweight men--Fiction.
Travelers--Fiction.
Cycling--Fiction.

Abstract 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.
General noteOriginally published: New York: Viking Penguin, 2004.
ISBN0143036688 (pbk.)
ISBN9780143036685 (pbk.)

Availability

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Joyner TRC Fiction F M2225M ✔ Available Place Hold