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The author addresses the ten year gap in an interview on Fresh Air with Terry Gross: https://www.npr.org/2018/02/14/585719252/long-haul-trucker-was-completely-s

The author addresses the ten year gap in an interview on Fresh Air with Terry Gross: https://www.npr.org/2018/02/14/585719252/long-haul-trucker-was-completely-seduced-by-the-open-road https://www.npr.org/2018/02/14/585719252/long-haul-trucker-w... Relevant section is towards the end, about 80% of the way through.

orf 9y ago
> You stopped driving for about 10 years. You don't say in the book what you did during those 10 years. Can you give us a sense of what your life was like in the 10 years that you stopped driving? > MURPHY: Yes. That was in an original draft of the book. Actually, that's going to be my next book, Terry - about what I did. But I will tell you what I did. So I was working for North American Van Lines, and I was getting basically burnt out. And one of the things that I had always intended to do when I left college was to save some money and go into business for myself. And that was really one of the goals. I didn't just quit college and just, you know, sort of flip the bird to everybody. I actually had some kind of a plan. And back then, you could - I could make a lot of money. I was making a hundred thousand dollars a year in 1981 as a mover. > So I saved a bunch of money. I bought an import company importing - you know those beautiful fisherman's sweaters from Ireland? I used to import those into the United States from the west of Ireland. And I got into the other parts of the textile business and then started importing cashmere sweaters from Scotland and had a very successful business on Nantucket Island in Massachusetts. ... > MURPHY: So I was on - living on Nantucket Island as a high-profile businessman and citizen and community activist. I was actually chairman of the county commissioners on Nantucket. I was a police commissioner. I was the airport commissioner. I was on the board of the chamber of commerce. I was a successful person, married, living in a small town. And, well, what happened is I got into a relationship with a woman who wasn't my wife. And my life exploded. Or probably more accurately, I took a match to my life and blew it to pieces. And so Nantucket is not a place where that kind of thing is going to be unnoticed or uncommented upon.
- dogruck 9y ago
  I read the book this summer (article is from July 11), and I really enjoyed it. Thanks — I wondered what happened in that 10 year gap. It’s a good book.
- smudgymcscmudge 9y ago
  Seems like he could have put in a couple of paragraphs about that to whet our appetite for the next book.
  - jackstraw14 9y ago
    Isn't that just pointless marketing that doesn't do anything for us as readers though? A few paragraphs isn't enough to depict anything accurately about ten silent years before a 180 degree life change. Let's get excited about his next book when it's here.

orf 9y ago

> You stopped driving for about 10 years. You don't say in the book what you did during those 10 years. Can you give us a sense of what your life was like in the 10 years that you stopped driving? > MURPHY: Yes. That was in an original draft of the book. Actually, that's going to be my next book, Terry - about what I did. But I will tell you what I did. So I was working for North American Van Lines, and I was getting basically burnt out. And one of the things that I had always intended to do when I left college was to save some money and go into business for myself. And that was really one of the goals. I didn't just quit college and just, you know, sort of flip the bird to everybody. I actually had some kind of a plan. And back then, you could - I could make a lot of money. I was making a hundred thousand dollars a year in 1981 as a mover. > So I saved a bunch of money. I bought an import company importing - you know those beautiful fisherman's sweaters from Ireland? I used to import those into the United States from the west of Ireland. And I got into the other parts of the textile business and then started importing cashmere sweaters from Scotland and had a very successful business on Nantucket Island in Massachusetts. ... > MURPHY: So I was on - living on Nantucket Island as a high-profile businessman and citizen and community activist. I was actually chairman of the county commissioners on Nantucket. I was a police commissioner. I was the airport commissioner. I was on the board of the chamber of commerce. I was a successful person, married, living in a small town. And, well, what happened is I got into a relationship with a woman who wasn't my wife. And my life exploded. Or probably more accurately, I took a match to my life and blew it to pieces. And so Nantucket is not a place where that kind of thing is going to be unnoticed or uncommented upon.

dogruck 9y ago
I read the book this summer (article is from July 11), and I really enjoyed it. Thanks — I wondered what happened in that 10 year gap. It’s a good book.
smudgymcscmudge 9y ago
Seems like he could have put in a couple of paragraphs about that to whet our appetite for the next book.
- jackstraw14 9y ago
  Isn't that just pointless marketing that doesn't do anything for us as readers though? A few paragraphs isn't enough to depict anything accurately about ten silent years before a 180 degree life change. Let's get excited about his next book when it's here.