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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 one week, Smithy's 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-to 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.
The Memory of Running, McLarty's stunning debut as a novelist, heralds the
arrival of a major new voice in American fiction. And Smithy Ide-sad, sweet,
and funny in spite of himself-is a character who will linger in your mind
long after his hilarious, luminous, and extraordinary adventures have come
to an end.
Map of Smithy Ide's journey across the U.S.
The Memory of Running has been chosen as the book pick for this year's Reading Across Rhode Island...read more.
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Australia, Penguin Group, 2005
Finland, Otava, 2005
France, Albin Michel, 2005
J'AI REVE DE COURIR LONGTEMPS
Great Britain, Time Warner, 2005
Holland, Vassallucci 2005
DE GEHEUGENLOPER
Ireland, Time Warner (UK), 2005
Italy, Sperling & Kupfer, 2005
SOGNAVE DI CORRERE LONTANO
New Zealand, Penguin Group (Australia), 2005
Norway, Glydendal, 2005
JEG HUSKER AT JET LOP
Spain, Alfaguara, 2005
UNA HISTORIA EN BICICLETA
Sweden, Wahlstom & Widstrand, 2005
JAG MINNS ATT JAG SPRANG
UK, 2005
Little Brown Book Group
Maine, USA, Thorndike Press, 2005
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