The Long and Faraway Gone (Audiobook)

from LaBibliophille

I was not able to start this book when I first received it. I'm glad I waited until I really had some time to devote to it. It is a real page turner and hard to put down. I think if I had started it early in the day it would have been a one day book, not two. This is the story of two survivors of...

from clue

In The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney, 25 years have gone by since two tragedies occurred in Oklahoma City the same year. Chapters shift back and forth from 1986 to 2011. In the 1986 chapters we learn how the victims were living and how they were thinking before the crimes took place. In 201...

from VintageReader

I loved this book; I just can't decide if the reason I loved it is that so much of it took place in Oklahoma City in 1986. I lived in Oklahoma City in 1986, and it felt so, so accurate (albeit with the details changed--but hey, fiction) that it actually took me back to that time and kept me there...

from Twink

listened to Lou Berney's second book, Whiplash River a few years ago. I remember I really enjoyed the characters, the plot and the dialogue - well, yes - everything! I was eager to read his newly released third book, The Long and Faraway Gone . Summer of 1968. Oklahoma City. Six employees of a sm...

from fhudnell

This is a terrific mystery, but it is also the story of two people unable to move on from past tragedies until they get some resolution. It's not surprising that this author also writes screenplays, because this book would make a wonderful movie. In fact there is enough going on in this book for ...