The Longest Way Home: One Man's Quest for the Courage to Settle Down Audiobook

Quotes

• “The reader gets to see the world in a way that only the author can show it and vicariously inhabit a self that only one person can be…McCarthy achieves this with charm and credibility.”

  — Cheryl Strayed, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wild

• “It’s hard to write books that are both adventurous and touching, but Andrew McCarthy manages to pull it off and more! A smart, valuable book.”

  — Gary Shteyngart, New York Times bestselling author of Absurdistan

• “Andrew McCarthy treks from Baltimore to the Amazon, exploring his commitment issues as fearlessly as he scales Mount Kilimanjaro.”

  — Elle

• “A candid, touching, and often humorous new memoir.”

  — San Francisco Chronicle

• “Brave and moving…McCarthy’s keen sense of scene and storytelling ignites his accounts…threaded with an exemplary vulnerability and propelled by a candid exploration of his own life’s frailties.”

  — National Geographic Traveler

• “McCarthy delivers a deeply revealing memoir about settling down, both with a woman and in his own skin. An unflinchingly honest examination of his life as an actor, son, brother, husband, and father, as well as his struggle with committing to a woman in his life whom he plans to—and does, by the end of the book—marry in Dublin. Alcoholism, infidelity, the dark side of celebrity—McCarthy holds nothing back…He skillfully brings the locations and their characters to life…Like the best travel, accompanying McCarthy on his road toward self-awareness and the woman he loves is much more about the journey than the destination.”

  — Gotham Magazine

• “In this carefully modulated record of self-discovery, actor turned travel writer McCarthy…tries to confront the author’s relentless need to shy and duck. Impressionistic moments such as venturing out onto the Perito Moreno Glacier in Patagonia, riding down the Amazon, mingling among other ‘escapees’ in the gold-mining Osa Peninsula of Costa Rica, and riding the clamor of a family outing in Vienna help release, if reluctantly bit by bit, his solitariness. Remote and diffident, McCarthy confronts very real male fears of being stifled and restrained.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “This is not some memoir written by an actor who fancies himself a world traveler. McCarthy really is a world traveler—and a damned fine writer, too. The book features eight destinations—New York, Patagonia, the Amazon, the Osa, Vienna, Baltimore, Kilimanjaro, and Dublin—and, along the way, McCarthy explores himself, too, introducing us to a man whose love for life is matched only by his love for the woman he would eventually marry (and whose growing importance to McCarthy is a thread that runs throughout the book.”

  — Booklist

• “[McCarthy] shows off his writing chops in this memoir of his gradual resolution of the major conflicts in his life…Combining the best aspects of Paul Theroux’s misanthropy in books like Old Patagonian Express and Elizabeth Gilbert’s emotions in Eat, Pray, Love, this book is hard to put down. Bound to be popular, this compelling and honest chronicle will not disappoint readers.”

  — Library Journal

• “Former 1980s heartthrob actor McCarthy embraces world travel to make sense of life after movie stardom…Whether he’s walking alone in Spain, taking a group river cruise down the Amazon, or slurping coffee in Vienna with his family, McCarthy’s writing slips deep into the intensely personal territory of memory.”

  — Kirkus Reviews