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  • I picked up this book after my mom recommended it and I really enjoyed it. I felt like the main character in the book was someone I actually knew! This book was great, and I would recommend anyone give it a try!

    

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• ― Akvranish said on Oct 13, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  • Un libro che è stato un vero colpo di fulmine, a partire dalla copertina un pò fiabesca e allegramente retrò. L'ho comprato senza sapere altro, ed è stato una vera scoperta. La copertina è solo l'ingresso in un mondo bizzarro, in cui vive il protagonista, un uomo annientato da una totale abulia, com ... Continue

    Un libro che è stato un vero colpo di fulmine, a partire dalla copertina un pò fiabesca e allegramente retrò. L'ho comprato senza sapere altro, ed è stato una vera scoperta. La copertina è solo l'ingresso in un mondo bizzarro, in cui vive il protagonista, un uomo annientato da una totale abulia, completamente ritirato da emozioni e passioni. Un evento tragico gli darà finalmente una missione da compiere, che attraverso sudore e dolore (letteralmente) lo riporterà alla vita. E' sicuramente una storia già sentita, ma mai l'ho letta raccontata con tanta ruvida poesia. Associo sempre The memory of running a "Una storia vera" di david Lynch, un film che amo molto.

    

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Once in a great while, a story comes along that has everything: plot, setting, and, most important of all, the kind of characters that sweep readers up and take them on a thrilling, unforgettable ride. Well, get ready for Ron McLarty’s The Memory of Running because, as Stephen King wrote in Entertainment Weekly (Stephen King’s "The Pop of King" column for Entertainment Weekly), "Smithy is an American original, worthy of a place on the shelf just below your Hucks, your Holdens, your Yossarians."

Meet Smithson "Smithy" Ide, an overweight, friendless, chain-smoking, forty-three-year-old drunk who works as a quality control inspector at a toy action-figure factory in Rhode Island. By all accounts, including Smithy’s own, he’s a loser. But when Smithy’s life of quiet desperation is brutally interrupted by tragedy, he stumbles across his old Raleigh bicycle and impulsively sets off on an epic journey that might give him one last chance to become the person he always wanted to be. As he pedals across America—with stops in New York City, St. Louis, Denver, and Phoenix, to name a few—he encounters humanity at its best and worst and adventures that are by turns hilarious, luminous, and extraordinary. Along the way, Smithy falls in love and back into life.

McLarty’s novel has already received significant attention for its unusual genesis as an audiobook. Now, in a major publishing event, Viking heralds the arrival of a major new voice in American fiction with his stunning debut, The Memory of Running.

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