{"product_id":"kings-highway-james-d-mccallister-9781946052087","title":"King's Highway","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James D. McCallister\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1946052086\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781946052087\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mind Harvest Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/13\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.42d","brand":"James D. McCallister","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47637322498303,"sku":"9781946052087","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3495266e-4167-443f-9fc4-e811b499c9c7.jpg?v=1765115429","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/kings-highway-james-d-mccallister-9781946052087","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}