| Title : | The Memory of Running | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Ron Mclarty, Author | | Publisher: | London : Time Warner | | Publication Date: | 2005 | | Pagination: | 406 p. | | Size: | 20 cm | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-7515-3736-9 | | Class number: | 813.6 | | 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. |
The Memory of Running [printed text] / Ron Mclarty, Author . - London : Time Warner, 2005 . - 406 p. ; 20 cm. ISBN : 978-0-7515-3736-9 | Class number: | 813.6 | | 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. |
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