The Longest Way Home

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BIOGRAPHY Sí AUTOBIOGRAPHY WITH AN IRREPRESSIBLE TASTE FOR ADVENTURE, candor, and a vivid sense of place, award-winning travel writer and actor Andrew McCarthy takes us on a deeply personal journey played out amid somé of the world's most evocative locales. "Rarely have I seen the male psyche explored with such honesty and vulnerability. This is the story of a son, a father, a brother, a husband, a man who finds the courage not only to face himself, but to reveal himself, and, in so doing, illuminates something about what it is to be humán, fully alive, and awake." -DANI SHAPIRO, author of Devotion "It's hard to write books that are both adventurous and touching, but Andrew McCarthy manages to puli it off and more! A smart, valuable book." - GARY SHTEYNGART, bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story and Absurdistan "Where lesser writers might reach for hyperbole and Roget to describe such exotic lands as Patagonia, Kilimanjaro, and Baltimore, in The Longest Way Home, McCarthy... Tovább

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BIOGRAPHY Sí AUTOBIOGRAPHY WITH AN IRREPRESSIBLE TASTE FOR ADVENTURE, candor, and a vivid sense of place, award-winning travel writer and actor Andrew McCarthy takes us on a deeply personal journey played out amid somé of the world's most evocative locales. "Rarely have I seen the male psyche explored with such honesty and vulnerability. This is the story of a son, a father, a brother, a husband, a man who finds the courage not only to face himself, but to reveal himself, and, in so doing, illuminates something about what it is to be humán, fully alive, and awake." -DANI SHAPIRO, author of Devotion "It's hard to write books that are both adventurous and touching, but Andrew McCarthy manages to puli it off and more! A smart, valuable book." - GARY SHTEYNGART, bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story and Absurdistan "Where lesser writers might reach for hyperbole and Roget to describe such exotic lands as Patagonia, Kilimanjaro, and Baltimore, in The Longest Way Home, McCarthy leans on subtlety, a straightforward style, and hard-won insights to allow his larger stories to unfold. It's not hard to imagine him as the solitary figure in the café, scribbling in a notebook by candlelight, making the lonely, tedious work of travel writing look romantic and easy." -CHUCK THOMPSON, author of Better Off Without 'Em and Smile When You re Lying Vissza