Ron McLarty
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Award-winning actor and playwright Ron McLarty is well known for his performances like A Walk in the Woods and Travels With Charley. What fewer people realize is that he's also an accomplished author. In this wonderfully quirky novel, available exclusively as an audiobook, McLarty takes listeners on a quest to find hope and redemption with an unlikely hero.
Smithson Ide is 43 years old and weighs 279 pounds when his parents die in an accident. Lost...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Author of the acclaimed novel The Memory of Running, Ron McLarty is an American original whose infectious prose will swiftly ensnare any reader. Art in America tells the story of unknown writer Steven Kearney, an aging man whose lifelong commitment to his art finally brings him to homelessness in NYC. Then miraculously he receives an invitation to become playwright in residence of a troubled Rocky Mountain town.
3) Traveler
Author
Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Description
The eagerly anticipated follow-up to McLarty's poignant and deep-souled debut, "The Memory of Running". Jono Riley receives a letter from a childhood friend telling him that Marie, the first girl Jono ever loved, had just died in her sleep. Woven throughout are Jono's endearing and funny memories of his coming of age with his three best friends - including a series of mysterious shootings that occurred back then, one of which lodged a bullet in Marie's...