The Memory of Running Audio Book CDs Unabridged

The Memory of Running
Author/Reader: Ron McLarty
Ron McLarty

Stephen King called this "the best book you'll never read" when it started out as an audiobook. Travel with obese, 40-something loser Smithson Ide. Taking a hilarious, horrifying journey after his parents die, he rides cross-country on hisold bicycle to look for his psychotic sister. Along the way, he discovers himself and falls in love. "Captivating... [He] unspools passage after passage of devastating grace and melancholy, and his taciturn hero hooks himself to your heart."—Entertainment Weekly » Read More

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M9X429

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Audio CDs ( 11 )

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$34.99

Publish Date: 12/29/2004
ISBN: 9781402594298

Synopsis:

Stephen King's endorsement of this debut novel propelled it to the top of the best-seller list. It's the story of fat, alcoholic, tobacco-addicted, and terminally hopeless Smithson Ide, known as Smithy, whose life is, to say the least, unsatisfactory. (He works in an action-toy factory.) Accidentally discovering that his beloved long-lost schizophrenic sister has died in L.A., and that her body is unclaimed, he journeys from New England out to the coast on his old bicycle. The cross-country trip changes Smithy in ways that include weight-loss, a tremendous surge of confidence, a romance, and the chance to show that he has a truly compassionate heart.

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