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King’s endorsement gets novel running

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edited January 2005 in General news
The Memory of Running

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    SF Chronicle Review
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    Warner Bros. has picked up rights to long suffering author Ron McLarty’s book "The Memory of Running" and set Alfonso Cuaron ("Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban") to direct it.



    McLarty wrote the book 14 years before a publisher finally picked it up, after Stephen King made a comment about the novel in an interview.



    The story follows 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.
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