Red Sky at Morning by Richard Bradford

Red Sky at Morning by Richard Bradford

"Red Sky at Morning is a minor marvel: it is a novel of paradox, of identity, of an overwhelming YES to life that embraces with wonder what we are pleased to call the human condition. In short, a work of art."  -- Harper Lee

Hailed by the Washington

Post Book World as "a sort of Catcher

in the Rye out West," Richard

Bradford's Red Sky at Morning is the

classic coming-of-age story set during World War II about the enduring spirit

of youth and the values in life that count.

In the summer of 1944, Frank

Arnold, a wealthy shipbuilder in Mobile, Alabama, receives his volunteer

commission in the U.S. Navy and moves his wife, Ann, and seventeen-year-old

son, Josh, to the family's summer home in the village of Corazon Sagrado, high

in the New Mexico mountains. A true daughter of the Confederacy, Ann finds it impossible to cope with the quality of life in the largely

Hispanic village and, in the company of Jimbob Buel--an insufferable,

South-proud, professional houseguest--takes to bridge and sherry. Josh, on

the other hand, becomes an integral member of the Sagrado community, forging

friendships with his new classmates, with the town's disreputable resident

artist, and with Amadeo and Excilda Montoya, the couple hired by his father to

care for their house. 

Josh narrates the story

of his fateful year in Sagrado and, with irresistibly deadpan, irreverent humor, describes the

events and people who influence his progress to maturity. Unhindered by his

mother's disdain for these "tacky, dusty little Westerners," Josh

comes into his own and into a young man's finely formed understanding of duty,

responsibility, and love. 

Bradford, Richard: - Richard Bradford is Research Professor in English at Ulster University and Visiting Professor at the University of Avignon. He has published over thirty acclaimed books, including a biography of Philip Larkin, which was an Independent Book of the Year; the authorised biography of Alan Sillitoe; a life of Kingsley Amis; and a biography of Kingsley's son, Martin. He has written for the Spectator and the Sunday Times and has been interviewed on his work for various BBC Radio Arts programmes, as well as appearing on the Channel 4 series Writers in their Own Words. His The Importance of Elsewhere, on Larkin the photographer, inspired a BBC TV programme and, most recently, his biography Orwell was given five stars as an 'excellent new biography' by The Telegraph.

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ISBN 13	9780060931902
ISBN 10	0060931906
Title	Red Sky at Morning
Author	Richard Bradford
Series	Perennial Classics Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Year published	2020-08-18
Number of pages	256
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.