The Longest Road
Written by Jeanne Williams
Narrated by Patty Duke
3/5
()
About this audiobook
For Laurie Field, life is a series of hellos and goodbyes, of attachments cut short by the struggle for survival in America's Dust Bowl. When a violent dust storm leaves their mother dead and the family farm in ruins, Laurie and her brother help their father load up the flivver and leave Kansasaiming for a better life. At the side of the road, the Fields meet handsome wayfarer Johnny Morrigan. Although he is with them for only a short time, Johnny makes a painful journey easier with his gentle manner and songs of struggle and hope written by Woody Guthrie and other American greats. Her father travels to California in search of work, leaving Laurie and her brother in the care of their autocratic grandfather. Anxious to see her family reunited, Laurie heads for California. Disguised as a boy, she and her brother hop the rails and begin a long journey into happiness and disappointmentand danger, when wealthy oilman W.S. Redwine takes an interest in Laurie. Laurie's heart belongs to Johnny, wherever he may be, but Redwine will go to any lengths to make a place in her life. Laurie is equally determined to find a new home with her family, and Redwine is only one of the many obstacles she must overcome in this compelling story of one courageous and passionate woman.
Jeanne Williams
Born on the High Plains near the tracks of the Santa Fe Trail, Jeanne Williams’s first memories are of dust storms, tumbleweeds, and cowboy songs. Her debut novel, Tame the Wild Stallion, was published in 1957. Since then, Williams has published sixty-eight more books, most with the theme of losing one’s home and identity and beginning again with nothing but courage and hope, as in the Spur Award–winning The Valiant Women (1980). She was recently inducted into the Western Writers Hall of Fame, and has won four Western Writers of America Spur Awards and the Levi Strauss Saddleman Award. For over thirty years, Williams has lived in the Chiricahua Mountains of southeastern Arizona.
More audiobooks from Jeanne Williams
The Unplowed Sky Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Home Mountain Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5So Many Kingdoms Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Brother Shotgun [Dramatized Adaptation] Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWind Water Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Woman Clothed In Sun Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tame The Wild Stallion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Home Station Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Bride of Thunder Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related to The Longest Road
Related audiobooks
Home Station Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Woman Clothed In Sun Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Hidden Valley Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Daughter of The Storm Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Unplowed Sky Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Valiant Women Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Trampled Fields Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Home Mountain Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wind Water Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Underground River Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Castle Craggs Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Perfect Love Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Bride of Thunder Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beneath a Frosty Moon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Melody of the Mulberries Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Alice Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Where The Murray River Runs Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJourney On the Wind Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Meggie's Remains Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Island Harp Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tomorrow is Forever Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Midwinter Sun: A Love Story Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsShadows in the Wind Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Distant Dawn Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Pattern Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Liar's Winter: An Appalachian Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHearts Divided Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Distant Heart Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Innocent Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Romance For You
Outlander Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It Starts with Us: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Court of Silver Flames Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Twisted Love Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When We Believed in Mermaids: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Confess Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Idea of You Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ugly Love Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Slammed: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5November 9: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Ministry of Time: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Twisted Games Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Touch of Darkness Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When He Was Wicked Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5On Mystic Lake: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All Your Perfects: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Never King Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It's in His Kiss Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5On the Way to the Wedding Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Water for Elephants Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Maybe Someday Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Witches of New Orleans Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Pride and Prejudice: Classic Tales Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Maybe Now: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dark One Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Point of Retreat: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Twisted Hate Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5One Last Stop Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Messy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for The Longest Road
8 ratings1 review
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5This was only half the book. Very disappointed .. no idea why it was only half the book