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Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Buckley, Paul (jacket design); Soudant, Jethro (jacket photo illustration); O"Leary, Shasti (jacket photo illustration); Bauer, Jerry (author photograph) (illustratore). 1st Edition. As new condition dark blue boards with gold front cover decoration and gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication and Acknowledgments. Signed by the author, Ron McLarty, with black pen on a new condition Indian River Literary Society bookplate which is not attached to the volume. "This is a book that can do more than walk: it has a chance to be a breakout bestseller.Smithy is an American original, worthy of a place on the shelf just below your Hucks, your Holdens, your Yossarians." - Stephen King. "Riders who hop onto the back of Smithy Ide's bike and ride America awith him will cherish the journey. I love this sad, funny, life-affirming novel." - Wally Lamb. "Every decade seems to produce a novel that captures the public's imagination with a story that sweeps readers up and takes them on a thrilling, unforgettable ride. Ron McLarty's The Memory of Running is this decade's novel. 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, especially Smithy's own, he's a loser. Then, within the span of one week, his beloved parents are killed in a car crash, and Smithy learns that his emotionally troubled, long-lost sister, Bethany, has turned up in a morgue in Los Angeles. Unmoored by the loss of his entire family - Smithy had always hoped Bethany might return - he rolls down the driveway of his parents' house on his old Raleigh bicycle into an epic journey that will take him clear across the country. As Smithy pedals across America - through New York City, St. Louis, Denver, and Phoenix, to name a few - he encounters humanity at its best and worst and begins to remember an early life that too many beers have blotted out. The baseball games, the home-cooked meals, the soothing presence of his salt-of-the-earth parents: none of it could transform the dark truth of his sister's madness. The Memory of Running, McLarty's stunning debut as a novelist, heralds the arrival of a major new voice in American fiction. And Smithy Ide - sad, sweet, and funny in spite of himself - is a character who will linger in your mind long after his hilarious, luminous, and extraordinary adventures have come to an end." - from the inner front jacket flap. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Jerry Bauer (Author photograph) and Jethro Soudant (illustratore). First Printing [Stated]. [8], 358, [2] pages. Autographed copy on the front of the dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page. The DJ has some wear, soilng, and a small tear at mid-spine. Working as a quality control inspector at a toy factory in Rhode Island, friendless alcoholic Smithy Ide considers himself a loser until a tragic event prompts him to set off on an epic cross-country bicycle journey that promises him a final chance to become the man he has always wanted to be. Ronald William McLarty (April 26, 1947 - February 8, 2020) was an American actor, playwright, and novelist. He also worked as an audiobook narrator, in which role he recorded over 100 titles and received many Audie Awards. McLarty appeared in many television series, films and stage productions. He also wrote dozens of plays and 10 novels, notably The Memory of Running. McLarty began his career in theatre during the early 1970s with one of his earliest professional performances being the role of Lucky in Michael Weller's Moonchildren for the play's American premiere at the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. in November 1971. McLarty continued with the production when it moved to Broadway in 1972. McLarty also co-starred on Spenser: For Hire, as Boston homicide detective Sgt. Frank Belson. Although he enjoyed a successful career as an actor, he had not had much luck finding a publisher for his novel The Memory of Running, until Stephen King happened upon an audiobook version, narrated by McLarty, and praised it as "the best book you can't read". This led to the book's publication by Viking Press, and its rapid rise to bestseller status. Every decade seems to produce a novel that captures the public's imagination with a story that sweeps readers up and takes them on a thrilling, unforgettable ride. Ron McLarty's The Memory of Running is this decade's novel. 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. (From the publisher.) Derived from a Publishers Weekly article: Smithy Ide is a really nice guy. But he's also an overweight, friendless, womanless, hard-drinking, 43-year-old self-professed loser with a breast fetish and a dead-end job, given to stammering "I just don't know" in life's confusing moments. When Smithy's entire family dies, he embarks on a transcontinental bicycle trip to recover his sister's body and rediscover what it means to live. Along the way, he flashes back to his past and the hardships of his beloved sister's schizophrenia, while his dejection encourages strangers to share their life stories. The road redeems the innocent Smithy: he loses weight; rescues a child from a blizzard; rebuffs the advances of a nubile, "apple-breasted" co-cyclist after seeing a vision of his dead sister; and nurtures a telephone romance with a paraplegic family friend as he processes his rocky past. McLarty, a playwright and television actor, propels the plot with mayhemâ"including three tragic car accidents and a death by lightning boltâ"and a lot of bighearted and warm but faintly mournful humor. It's a funny, poignant debut that aims, like its protagonist, to pleaseâ"and does.