{"product_id":"kings-highway-paperback","title":"King's Highway - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames D. McCallister\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere were you in '78? Edgewater County favorite son Ray DeKalb, a nineteen-year old child of Southern privilege and enrolled at Southeastern University, thinks he's nowhere. Ray chafes at his family's expectations, and the life they've prepackaged for him like a supermarket TV dinner: college, law school, a career in politics or jurisprudence. He's willing to follow either his heart or his head, but neither has any idea what it wants.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat's a randy, stoned and rebellious romantic to do? In the spring of 1978, Ray's answer is to escape from encroaching adult reality by twisting up a joint, dropping out of college and pointing those headlights toward the nearest beach town. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBesides nabbing a gig in \"show business\" at the venerable Myrtle Beach Pavilion, Ray becomes entangled in relationships with an attractive, willing hotelier and a wild child closer to his own age. When he discovers that his new girl Jamie comes accompanied by a pair of gangster boyfriends, however, Ray finds his journey of discovery transformed into a frightening brush with criminality, danger, and death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith chapters named for the tracks on Warren Zevon's seminal 1978 album \u003cem\u003eExcitable Boy\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eKing's Highway\u003c\/em\u003e comes complete with its own nostalgic soundtrack, if only in the ears of its protagonist \"Ray-Ray\" and the lovers, friends, and dangerous enemies he makes during this nostalgic coming-of-age adventure on the \"redneck riviera\" by the South Carolina seashore. Originally published in 2007 by Red Letter Press, this updated edition features a new afterword.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.42 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 13, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67919590785247,"sku":"9781946052087","price":10.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/uBZB2d2St09781946052087.webp?v=1791071576","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/kings-highway-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}