title: The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road
author:  Finn Murphy 
description: <em>The Long Haul</em> can be almost shamefully enjoyable, allowing readers to have their fix of fabulous-life-of porn and class outrage, too. . . . [T]he stories Murphy tells . . . my goodness, how astonishing they are, and how moving, and how funny.<br /> - <strong>Jennifer Senior, <em>New York Times Book Review</em></strong><br /><br />Like priests, movers shepherd us through lifes transitions; like cowboys, truckers drive the roads well never know. Both see America in ways the rest of us dont. In <em>The Long Haul</em>, Murphy . . . bring[s] us into his semi-mythic world.<br /> - <strong>Joshua Rothman, <em>The New Yorker</em></strong><br /><br />Its [Murphy's] rich perspective as a mover that makes this story of trucking life so insightful. . . . A well-written story that rarely slows down.<br /> - <strong>Nathan Deuel, <em>Los Angeles Times</em></strong><br /><br /><em>The Long Haul</em> delivers because it is a survey of a culture fused to a working mans memoirand Murphy, smartly, avoids sentiment and lazy comparisons.<br /> - <strong>Jeffery Gleaves, <em>The Paris Review</em></strong><br /><br />A veteran drivers informative, humorous and beautifully detailed memoir. . . . Its a hoot to ride along with Murphy.<br /> - <strong>Irene Wanner, <em>The Seattle Times</em></strong><br /><br />There's nothing semi about Finn Murphy's trucking tales of <em>The Long Haul</em>.<br /> - <strong>Sloane Crosley, <em>Vanity Fair</em></strong><br /><br />Finn Murphy . . . bring[s] readers along for a rollicking ride through a trucker's world and [provides] an insider's eye, pairing it with an involving series of encounters.<br /> - <strong><em>The Midwest Book Review</em></strong><br /><br />A rare, fascinating glimpse into the lives of big-rig pilots and the people they move <em>The Long Haul</em> beguil[es] readers with wit, wisdom and observations born from decades in transit.<br /> - <strong>Jason Blevins, <em>Denver Post</em></strong>
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  Copyright © 2021 Tia Fielding
  
  Finnshifters series  
    
  Chuffed, Tiglon by the Tail, Howl Sweet Howl, and Off and On Again ©Tia
  Fielding, 2021  
    
  Some of the stories have been re-edited slightly.  
  The fourth story, Off and On Again, has been completely edited by No Stone
  Unturned editing.  
    
  First three parts previously published by Dreamspinner Press in 2012 and 2013.  
  
  
    
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  Cover Art by LC Chase  
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