Finn Murphy. (2017). The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road. Unabridged HighBridge.

Finn Murphy. 2017. The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life On the Road. HighBridge.

Finn Murphy, The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life On the Road. HighBridge, 2017.

Finn Murphy. The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life On the Road. Unabridged HighBridge, 2017.

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More than thirty years ago, Finn Murphy dropped out of college to become a trucker. Since then he's covered hundreds of thousands of miles packing, loading, and hauling people's belongings all over America. Murphy whisks listeners down the I-95 Powerlane, across the Florida Everglades, in and out of the truck stops of the Midwest, and through the steep grades of the Rocky Mountains. He tells funny, poignant, and haunting stories of the people he moves: a hoarder in New Hampshire; a Virginia homeowner raging when Murphy's truck accidentally runs down a stand of trees; a widow rushing her archaeologist husband's remains and relics to a Navajo burial ceremony in New Mexico. Brimming with personality and great characters, The Long Haul explores the appeal of manual labor and shows what happens behind the scenes when we call the movers.

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   • content: Author Finn Murphy started driving on a college break. Now he's passed 50, and he's still on the road as a long-distance mover. Narrator Danny Campbell handles Murphy's voice the way listeners would want Murphy to handle their furniture. It's both tough and gently soft-spoken, with a hint of weariness from long experience. Murphy's stories share the dangers of life on the road; he opens by discussing all the possibilities for jackknifing on a mountain pass. Elsewhere, listeners will laugh over a tree-toppling disaster early in his career and hear the plaintive cry of a dying piano. He also discusses rivalries among truckers and decries the march toward automation. Listeners just might take this audiobook along when they go on their own road trips. J.A.S. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine
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     September 4, 2017
     Murphy recounts some of his more curious, amusing, and private moments as a lifer in the long-haul moving business. During his career he has driven across the country innumerable times in large trucks, loading and unloading people’s lives; through these adventures, he shares the trade lingo (“bed bug hauler” is trucker lingo for a mover like him), secrets (movers could care less about people’s stuff), and challenges (exactly how you back a truck down a winding, narrow road). Campbell’s genial and scratchy voice perfectly matches the tone of Murphy’s prose and Murphy’s demographic. Campbell is also able to tease out the more emotionally tense moments, projecting the anger and frustration when Murphy confronts his boss or relaying the tenderness the author feels towards a companion he picks up on the side of the road. It’s the perfect audiobook for a long drive. A Norton hardcover.

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