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Highway Sailor : A Rollicking American Journey
Overview
When the woman Jake Massry lives with leaves him for another man because he can't succeed as a writer, and his Old World father, on his deathbed, orders him to get a "real" job, Jake, to get his head straight, hits the highways of America in his worn-out VW bus Old Bones in search of himself and his country. It's Spring 1974--prices are spiraling upward and President Nixon is embroiled in the Watergate fiasco. As he travels from place to place in Old Bones (or rather pushes him), Jake meets a colorful cast of characters of 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.
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- ISBN-13: 9780982559819
- ISBN-10: 098255981X
- Publisher: Mad Dog Pub. Co.
- Publish Date: December 2010
- Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.6 pounds
- Page Count: 186
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