Road Songs

He looked out past the barren landscape and was sure that just beyond the mountains
in the distance he would find what had been lost. He believed many things that weren't true.

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. Despite his claims that it was just a story, many believed it to be an autobiographical account of something tragically lost in youth. Together with his dog Josie, Tom travels down deserted ...