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" The memory of running : "
Ron McLarty
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BL
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712508
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b534697
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| Main Entry
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McLarty, Ron
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| Title & Author
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The memory of running : : [a novel] /\ Ron McLarty
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Penguin Books,, 2006
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358, 5 p. ;; 21 cm
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0143036688 (pbk.)
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: 9780143036685 (pbk.)
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| Notes
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Originally published: New York: Viking Penguin, 2004
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| Abstract
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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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Cycling, Fiction
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Life change events, Fiction
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Loss (Psychology), Fiction
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Middle-aged men, Fiction
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Overweight men, Fiction
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Sisters-- Death, Fiction
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Travelers, Fiction
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