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Henry Bright has newly returned to West Virginia from the battlefields of the First World War. Griefstruck 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 hopes for safety rest with the angel who has followed him to Appalachia from the trenches of France and who now promises to protect him and his son. 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, Bright--along with his newborn--makes his way through a ravaged landscape toward an uncertain salvation.DON'T MISS THE EXCLUSIVE CONVERSATION BETWEEN JOSH RITTER AND NEIL GAIMAN IN THE BACK OF THE BOOK.
Author: Josh Ritter
Publisher: Dial Press
Published: 05/15/2012
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.21w x 0.62d
ISBN13: 9780812981841
ISBN10: 0812981847
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Visionary & Metaphysical
About the Author
Josh Ritter is a songwriter from Moscow, Idaho. His albums include The Animal Years and So Runs the World Away. Bright's Passage is his first novel. He lives in New York.