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McLarty, Ron The Memory of Running
Penguin December 27, 20 0-14-303668-8 / 9780143036685 Paperback As New
Smithy Ide is a really nice guy. But he's also an overweight, friendless, w omanless, hard-drinking, 43-year-old self-professed loser with a breast fet ish and a dead-end job, given to stammering "I just don't know" in life's c onfusing moments. When Smithy's entire family dies, he embarks on a transco ntinental bicycle trip to recover his sister's body and rediscover what it means to live. Along the way, he flashes back to his past and the hardships of his beloved sister's schizophrenia, while his dejection encourages stra ngers to share their life stories. The road redeems the innocent Smithy: he loses weight; rescues a child from a blizzard; rebuffs the advances of a n ubile, "apple-breasted" co-cyclist after seeing a vision of his dead sister ; and nurtures a telephone romance with a paraplegic family friend as he pr ocesses his rocky past. McLarty, a playwright and television actor, propels the plot with glib mayhem--including three tragic car accidents in 31 page s and a death by lightning bolt--and a lot of bighearted and warm but faint ly mournful humor. It's a funny, poignant, slightly gawky debut that aims, like its protagonist, to please--and usually does.
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McLarty, Ron The Memory of Running
Time Warner Books February 3, 200 0-316-72974-4 / 9780316729741 Paperback Near Fine
Philadelphia Enquirer 'Smithy Ide is one of the sweetest, most endearing losers in literature' Carole Matthews 'Very funny. Very heart-warming'
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700.00 JPY
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