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Traveler

When Ron McLarty's debut novel, The Memory of Running, appeared, it became clear that this man is a triple threat: actor (movies, stage, and TV), playwright and author. Now, with the publication of Traveler, 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 "Portagees" 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.

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  • "When Ron McLarty's debut novel, The Memory of Running, appeared, it became clear that this man is a triple threat: actor (movies, stage, and TV), playwright and author. Now, with the publication of Traveler, 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 "Portagees" 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."@en
  • "Visiting his childhood home in Rhode Island after learning that his first girlfriend has passed away, part-time actor Jono Riley remembers his coming of age at the side of three best friends, a period that was marked by a mysterious shooting."@en
  • "Visiting his childhood home in Rhode Island after learning that his first girlfriend has passed away, part-time actor Jono Riley remembers his coming of age at the side of three best friends, a period that was marked by a mysterious shooting."
  • "Jono Riley is an aging bartender and part-time actor in Manhattan who specializes in one-character plays, usually performed in front of an audience in the single digit. He still lives by himself in an Upper East Side walk-up, and though he's got a great girlfriend, a firefighter named Renee, his life is stuck and his acting career going nowhere fast. As the novel opens, news of the sudden death of his childhood friend Marie D'Agostino - his first true love - compels Jono to return for a few days to the place he grew up, the working-class neighborhoods of East Providence, Rhode Island. McLarty weaves the story of Jono's return with that of his coming-of-age in the early 1960s with his three best friends, including the story of a series of mysterious shootings that occurred back then, one of which lodged a bullet in Marie's back when she was twelve."
  • "Jono Riley ist Schauspieler, Barkeeper und lange über das Alter hinaus, in dem man sich noch Illusionen hingibt: Er weiss, dass er sich viele Chancen im Hier und Jetzt vergibt, weil er lieber in der Vergangenheit lebt und alten Träumen nachhängt. Als Jono vom Tod seiner Jugendliebe Marie erfährt, wacht er endlich auf und fasst den Entschluss in seine Heimatstadt zu reisen, um sich am Sehnsuchtsort seiner Erinnerung gebührend von Marie und seiner Jugend zu verabschieden. So hofft Jono, wieder frei für ein neues Leben und eine neue Liebe zu werden. Die Reise lässt jedoch alte, längst noch nicht verheilte Wunden wieder aufbrechen: Jono erinnert sich an den furchtbaren Tag vor über vierzig Jahren, an dem Marie von einem Unbekannten angeschossen worden war. Der Täter ist bis heute nicht gefasst und Jono spürt intuitiv: Er muss den Schützen finden, um seinen Frieden mit der Vergangenheit machen zu können Für alle Leserinnen von Nicholas Sparks, Marc Lévy und Mitch Albom."
  • "From the author of The Memory of Running-a beautifully crafted story of a man who returns home to discover the truth about his past Featuring the warmth and authenticity that made The Memory of Running such a major success, Traveler wraps a beautifully written ode to friendship within a compelling mystery. Jono Riley is an aging bartender and part-time actor in Manhattan who is compelled to return to the working-class neighborhoods of East Providence, where he came of age with his three best friends in the early 1960s. Jono is drawn into an attempt to solve the mystery of several shootings that occurred back then. As the surprising truth emerges, Jono is forced to come to terms with a past that is not quite what he remembers, even as he makes new resolutions in the present."@en
  • "When Jono Riley receives a letter that a childhood friend, Marie, has died, the 50-something third-rate actor and bartender leaves New York to visit his hometown of Providence, R.I. His search for answers surrounding her death leads Riley on a long and winding trip through old memories to discover the person responsible. --Publishers Weekly."@en

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Roman d'éducation"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Bildungsromans"@en
  • "Bildungsromans"
  • "Online-Publikation"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"

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  • "Traveler"@en
  • "Traveler"
  • "Viajero"@es
  • "Retour à Providence : roman"
  • "Weil ich dich nicht vergessen kann Roman"
  • "Weil ich dich nicht vergessen kann : Roman"

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