Title: A Memorable Ride and a Memorable Ide
Product review: When, halfway through Indiana, Smithie Ide is struck by a pickup truck driven by an AIDS patient (Smithie is 20 feet off the road at the time), the driver takes Smithie to the emergency room -- where the attendants take one look and trundle the driver into the ER, leaving Smithie in the truck. That's just a sample of the picaresque ironies in this book, in which Smithie, a go-with-the-flow sort of guy, follows the path of least resistance from East Providence, Rhode Island to Venice, California, undergoing both a physical and a philosophical transformation along the way. Read this to shake hands with the most likeable character that you'll meet this year.Tom Morrisey
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