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Lost Highway has attracted a legion of admirers since its initial publication in 1998, and this 2nd edition contains an additional chapter omitted from the 1st edition and an introduction by James Lee Burke. The book depicts the epic struggle of an ordinary person living his dreams and following his passion. Lost Highway is the memoir of Sapper Reeves, a World War II veteran and talented country musician from the small town of Maxwell, WV. The story covers the events of over half a century, from his birth in a poor, coal-mining town through his travels among the back roads of Appalachia in...

The lives of the working class in West Virginia -- a train engineer, an epileptic, coal miners and outlaws, the fragile and dispossessed -- are explored in this powerful yet tender collection of six short stories and a novella. They depict an isolated world of hardship, human endurance, and hard-won dignity and are a lyrical rendering of times and places now largely gone - but the stirring clarity of people and landscape can persist in the reader's imagination.

A combat medic in Vietnam faces the chaos of war, set against the tranquil scenes of family life back home in small-town America. After returning home from war to stay with his grandfather, he confronts his own shattered personal history and the mysterious human capacity for renewal.