Highway Sailor

A Rollicking American Journey

By: Joseph Sutton

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

This novel takes place in 1974—a few months before President Nixon resigned from office because of Watergate. The country is in turmoil, as is writer Jake Massry. The woman Jake lives with leaves him for another man because he can't succeed as a writer, and Jake's old-world father, on his deathbed, orders him to get a "real" job. To get his head straight, Jake hits the open road in Old Bones, his worn-out VW bus, in search of himself and America. As he travels from place to place in Old Bones (or rather pushes him), Jake meets a colorful cast of characters: sexy women, gays, born-again Christians, philosophers, racists, bullies and Gary Morse, a 19-year-old hitchhiker who possesses a large "red ruby" given to him by a young heiress.