The Longest Road Author:Patty Duke For Laurie Field, life is a series of hellos and good-byes, 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 Kansas, aiming for a better life. At the side of the ... more »road, the Fields meet handsome wayfarer Johnny Morrigan. Although he is with them for only a short time, Johnnny 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 head for California. An unabridged reading by Academy Award Winning Actress Patty Duke. 14 CD's 16.2 Hrs.« less