Road Songs

Tom Ryder is a writer and a reluctant film star, and he is dying. In 1951 Tom won the Pulitzer Prize for his book Highway Cross. Many critics believed that the book was an auto-biographical account of something tragically lost in youth. In the few interviews he ever gave, Tom, when asked about that would just shrug and repeat that it was just a work of fiction. And yet, like the character in Tom's book, he and his dog wander deserted Western highways and stop beside makeshift memorials to t