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The Memory of Running : a Novel by Ron McLarty is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Memory of Running : a Novel about?
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 in Entertainment Weekly(Stephen King?s ?The Pop of King? column for Entertainment Weekly), ?Smithy is an American original, worthy of a place on the shelf just below your Hucks, your Holdens, your Yossarians.?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, including Smithy?s own, he?s a loser. But when Smithy?s life of quiet desperation is brutally interrupted by tragedy, he stumbles across his old Raleigh bicycle and impulsively sets off on an epic journey that might give him one last chance to become the person he always wanted to be. As he pedals across America?with stops in New York City, St. Louis, Denver, and Phoenix, to name a few?he encounters humanity at its best and worst and adventures that are by turns hilarious, luminous, and
Who reads The Memory of Running : a Novel?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Ron McLarty
- Publisher
- Viking Adult
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780739455340
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Psychology
- Rating
- 3.76 / 5 (338 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- ذاكرة الجري: رواية [Arabic] (2004)
- The Memory of Running: [a Novel] (1999)
- The Memory of Running (2005)
- The Memory of Running: [a Novel] (2005)
- The Memory of Running (Charnwood Large Print) (2003)
- The Memory of Running : a Novel (2010)
- The Memory of Running (2006)
- The Memory of Running (Charnwood Large Print) (2005)
- J'Ai Reve de Courir Longtemps (Romans, Nouvelles, Recits (Domaine Etranger)) (2005)
- Memory of Running: A Novel (2006)
- The Memory of Running: [a Novel] (2003)