Bright’s Passage A Novel
Bright’s Passage A Novel by Josh Ritter is a first edition published by Dial Press in 2011, featuring 193 pages in English. This novel presents the story of Henry Bright, who returns to West Virginia after serving in the First World War. Struggling with grief over his wife’s death and the challenges of caring for their infant son, Bright faces the destruction of his home and seeks solace in the presence of an angel that has followed him from the battlefields of France.
Readers will find a narrative that intertwines elements of suspense and emotional depth as Bright, his newborn son, and a goat navigate a landscape scarred by fire and personal loss. The journey is marked by Bright’s haunting memories of war and the looming threat posed by his deceased wife’s father and his sons. This work explores themes of fatherhood, grief, and the search for safety, all conveyed through Ritter’s distinctive lyrical style.
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“Bright’s Passage shines with a compressed lyricism that recalls Ray Bradbury in his prime…This is the work of a gifted novelist…” – Stephen King, The New York Times Book Review
Josh Ritter’s first novel is a wondrous, suspenseful, and uniquely affecting story of the journey taken by a father and his infant son.
Henry Bright is newly returned to West Virginia from the battlefields of the First World War. Grief struck by the death of his young wife and unsure of how to care for the infant son she left behind, Bright is soon confronted by the destruction of the only home he’s ever known. His only hope for safety is the angel who has followed him to Appalachia from the trenches of France and who now promises to protect him and his son.
Together, Bright and his newborn, along with a cantankerous goat and the angel guiding them, make their way through a landscape ravaged by forest fire toward an uncertain salvation, haunted by the abiding nightmare of his experiences in the war and shadowed by his dead wife’s father, the Colonel, and his two brutal sons.
At times harrowing, at times funny, and always possessed by the sheer gorgeousness and unique imagination that have made Josh Ritter’s songs beloved to so many, this is the debut of a virtuoso fiction writer.
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