"Smithy is an American original, worthy of a place on the shelf just below your Hucks, your Holdens, your Yossarians." โStephen King
Every so often, a novel comes along that captures the publicโs imagination with a story that sweeps readers up and takes them on a thrilling, unforgettable ride. Ron McLartyโs The Memory of Running is this decadeโs novel. By all accounts, especially his own, Smithson "Smithy" Ide is a loser. An overweight, friendless, chain-smoking, forty-three-year-old drunk, Smithyโs 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 parentsโ 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.
"Smithy is an American original, worthy of a place on the shelf just below your Hucks, your Holdens, your Yossarians." โStephen King
Every so often, a novel comes along that captures the publicโs imagination with a story that sweeps readers up and takes them on a thrilling, unforgettable ride. R...