Ancient Highway: A Novel

I didn't especially like the story, but, because Bret Lott is such a wonderful story teller, it was hard to put the book down. It tells of three generations of a family, broken by misunderstandings and selfishness, yet finding strength in the love they have for each other. It is based loosely on some of Lott's own family story.

"He'd heard it already, the cold and steady promise way off, buidling but still way off, not yet even to the trestle over Rogers Creek. But coming. He pulled closed the door off the kitchen quiet as he could, his hand on the knob and twisting it so as to ease the latch with no noise at all, and it seemed a kind of good luck sign to him, that no-sound to help him on his way. He...more

"He'd heard it already, the cold and steady promise way off, buidling but still way off, not yet even to the trestle over Rogers Creek. But coming. He pulled closed the door off the kitchen quiet as he could, his hand on the knob and twisting it so as to ease the latch with no noise at all, and it seemed a kind of good luck sign to him, that no-sound to help him on his way. He had his good clothes in the pillowcase, the white shirt and stiff denim dungarees and the yellow tie he'd taken from Frank's things the day after he passed, and though he'd never worn the tie, only kept it liek a secret fact out of Frank's life that no one else would ever know, he was sure he'd look good in it when he went for his first screen test. That's what they called them, he'd seen in the magazines he'd read. A screen test, and his blood quickened at the thought of that, a test to see if could be on the screen. A test he was certain he would pass, knew he would pass." - From Ancient Highway A great story of a group of people of different ages and living in different eras who are enamoured with Hollywood and want to be part of its glamour. It is great the way Lott interweaves the different stories and brings them together in the end.   hide

fun. He's getting better. Story of a family pieced together from several points of view. Oh, Charleston.