KING’S HIGHWAY

Title: KING'S HIGHWAY
Published by: Red Letter Press
Release Date: June 27 2007
Pages: 163
ISBN13: 9780979442018
ASIN: B003LN1XKE

Raymond "Ray-Ray" DeKalb has everything going for him, but it sure doesn't feel like it. At 19, he's living the college high life, his folks have money, and he's supposed to be going places—places his father has planned for him to go. Add in the fact that his girlfriend's dumped him for his own ghastly brother, and there's nothing for it but to show them all that they can keep their bourgeois, pre-planned lives: it's springtime 1978, it's the era of sex,drugs, and rock & roll, and Myrtle Beach, that mecca of youthful angst and yearning, with its boulevard of boundless promise and pavilion of infinite hope, lies down the road. But Ray-Ray will soon learn that even on the King's Highway, a young man's troubles go wherever he goes—and that just when you least expect it, matters can go from bad to worse in a hurry.

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Feel the warm breath of an ocean breeze. Taste the salt of the sea and sweat. Hear the laughs and screams from the creaky old wooden roller coaster. And remember the time in your life when all the answers seemed just out of reach. King's Highway is a journey not easily forgotten. —Carla Damron, The Stone Necklace

Lost in an upwardly mobile world that doesn't interest him, "Ray-Ray" DeKalb is on a path to find himself -- a path of desire, personal destruction, and ultimate disaster. King's Highway is a wonderfully written first novel by a writer who brings to life a bygone era on South Carolina's Grand Strand. —Karen Petit, The Mystery at Foggy Bottom Lake

A coming-of-age story that any teenager, especially one who grew up in South Carolina, will recognize in many ways as his or her own story. —Robert Lamb, Atlanta Blues and Striking Out