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  <default_description>When Ron McLarty's debut novel, &lt;i&gt;The Memory of Running&lt;/i&gt;, appeared, it became clear that this man is a triple threat: actor (movies, stage, and TV), playwright and author.  Now, with the publication of &lt;i&gt;Traveler&lt;/i&gt;, he has beaten sophomore slump with another arresting story of real people, one that will keep you reading until the last page is finished, and then will leave you wondering what's next for everyone in the novel. Jono Riley is a middle-aged bartender and sometime actor just getting by in Manhattan. When he receives a note from a childhood friend telling him that Marie, his first love, has died, he travels back to East Providence, a working class neighborhood of Irish, Italians, and &quot;Portagees&quot; to pay his respects. His trip turns out to be a journey of discovery, told with a writing style that won't let go of the reader, conversational and revelatory without giving the game away. &lt;i&gt;--Valerie Ryan&lt;/i&gt;</default_description>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a good book, I enjoyed the characters, the flashbacks to the 60's which was a time of my youth too.  <br/><br/>The storyteller Jono Riley has returned to East Providence, Rhode Island because his childhood friend, Marie has just died. He hasn't been back in many years. As he returns to hi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62111213">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The author, a well-known actor, set this novel in East Providence, Rhode Island. Half a century ago, when I was growing up on the East Side of Providence, one got to East Providence by crossing the &quot;Red Bridge&quot; over the Seekonk River. Est Providence was largely a blue-collar town, a collec...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59256014">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was given to me by a friend, who had decided not to read it. It is the story of Jono Riley, a two-bit stage, and some-time bit part TV/commercial actor and bartender, who returns to his childhood home of East Providence, RI, after the death of a childhood crush.  The story alternates betwe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63290301">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I absolutely LOVE Ron McLarty as a narrator. If you're going to &quot;read&quot; his works, better to listen to him narrating his stuff. I really enjoyed this story, with the flashbacks to his childhood friendships. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I fell for Ron McLarty when I read The Memory of Running. With such an addicting introduction it was bound to have an impact on how I felt about his work after that.  After such a wonderful introduction - well, it's hard not to be a little let down.<br/>I found this book had such a lack of the ende...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75957568">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved Ron McLarty's first book, The Memory of Running, but wasn't sure what to expect from his second effort. It didn't let me down. I was drawn into the lives of four boys, childhood friends, when the main character (a New York bartender and sometime actor) returns to his hometown following the d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55426514">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Traveler, by Ron McLarty, b-plus, narrated by Ron McLarty, produced by Penguin Audio, downloaded from audible.com.  A.<br/><br/>Ron McLarty was a well-known audio narrator as well as an actor, before he published his first book, which became a best seller.  This is his second book.  He narrated hi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26386694">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read Ron's previous book and was happy to see this one in the book store...so, I bought it. The storyline goes as follows: A middle-aged guy in NYC half off off off off broadway actor/half bartender returns to his native East Providence,RI for his childhood friend, Marie's funeral. Marie was sh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21407736">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I devoured this book.  The story of Jono Riley's - a bartender and sometime actor - trip back to East Providence to revisit the memory of a childhood friend begins with fond memories touched by sadness then travels back to the  unexplainable horrors of the very young. The story draws tighter, the pa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11162393">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book a lot, but coming off The Memory of Running, his debut novel, anything was going to be a let down.  So that was a bit expected but I was still very excited to see this sitting on the library shelf.<br/><br/>I really enjoy the characters that Ron McLarty creates.  I never find the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17995348">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the second book by McLarty that I've read and I am worried that he can only write by alternating chapters between the past and the present. I stayed up nights totally drawn in to this book, only to be kind of disappointed with the ending and left with the desire to rip the last chapter right...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64171017">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The second book of McLarty's I've read (in addition to The Memory of Running, which was just as good).  I like his style quite a bit and his stories always have interesting characters.  The book is definitely more character-driven than plot driven, although this one has a more active plot than the l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67783490">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was a look at how the ties that bind can be the ties that cut, the ties that hold us back, and how they eventually set us free.  Interesting look at the dying breed of blue collar middle class men.  What have we lost in our rush to college education?  What happened to OJT?  And how do we m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78001150">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have read all of Ron McLarty's books so far and I really like them all!  I really enjoy his writing style and his characters.  I LOVED how descriptive this story was and loved hearing about the main-character's childhood.  McLarty's other two books are not &quot;mysteries&quot; but he did a very g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59901074">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[God, I LOVED this book!  Maybe it was because the protaginist was 11 in 1961 and so was I . It will be interesting to see how some of the youngsters relate to some of the no-longer-exsistent references in the book.  The &quot;mystery&quot; keep you engaged until the end. Excellent, excellent, excell...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61821599">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this up because I enjoyed Memory of Running (his previous book) so much. While I don't think this book is as good as that one, it does a nice job of unraveling the memories of a man in his 50's and helps him to come to terms with how they influenced his life and made him the person he is]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I chose this book after reading Ron McLarity's other novel, The Memory of Running.  Although the main characters are not the same as in the other book, many of the character types and the settings are very similar.  Upon hearing of the death of a childhood friend as a result of an accident that occu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1854157">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The death of childhood friend Marie D'Agostino brings New York bartender and sometimes actor Jono Riley back to East Providence, Rhode Island, where he learns things about the past that he would rather not know. A bullet fired in Marie's shoulder decades earlier when she was only twelve years old se...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28356674">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was just OK. I loved his first book &quot;the memory of running&quot;, so I was dissapointed with this book, it didn't even seam like the same writting style]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[McLarty does an excellent job of bringing the reader into the story. His characters are strong and incite the reader to identify with the text. A must read!]]></body>
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