Author: Ron McLarty
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: running, memory
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2005-12-27
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0143036688
ISBN-13: 9780143036685

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 e

Author: Ron McLarty
Publisher: Viking Adult
Keywords: traveler
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-01-18
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0670034746
ISBN-13: 9780670034741

The eagerly anticipated follow-up to Ron McLarty’s poignant and deep-souled debut, The Memory of Running When Ron McLarty’s debut novel, The Memory of Running, appeared, the publishing world sat up and took notice. Now, McLarty is back with another reason to cheer the arrival of his distinctive new voice. Jono Riley is an aging part-time actor and bartender trying to make ends meet in Manhattan when he receives a letter from a childhood friend telling him that Marie, the first girl Jono ever loved, had just died in her sleep. As Jono makes the trip back home to the working

Authors:Hunter S. Thompson,  Ron McLarty,
Publisher: Recorded Book
Keywords: vegas, las, loathing
Published: 2005-08-01
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 1419356275
ISBN-13: 9781419356278

Customer Reviews: McLarty Honours HST   November 6, 2009Taj Pozzi (Perth, Australia)As a Hunter S Thompson fanboy, I get pretty precious about how his legacy is maintained. A warm fuzzy feeling welled up in my gutty wuts as I listened to McLarty begin to narrate the immortal opening lines of HST’s magnum opus. McLarty is a DAMN GOOD voice actor who is obviously a fan of the Duke’s. He intimately understands the flow of Fear & Loathing and this comes across naturally in his reading. This audiobook definately adds to the holistic experience of this contemporary Yankee