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Bright's Passage: A Novel von Josh Ritter
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Bright's Passage: A Novel (2011. Auflage)

von Josh Ritter (Autor)

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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 heâ??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 wifeâ??s father, the Colonel, and his two brutal sons, Brightâ??along with his newbornâ??makes his way through a ravaged landscape toward an uncertain salvation.
 
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Titel:Bright's Passage: A Novel
Autoren:Josh Ritter (Autor)
Info:The Dial Press (2011), 208 pages
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This is a sad little story about a World War I veteran from West Virginia with a rough upbringing and an even rougher adult life. It's no wonder he carries on conversations with his horse, whom he addresses as 'Angel'.

After his wife dies in childbirth, Henry Bright is on the run, with his infant son, from both a raging forest fire and his vengeful father-in-law. Along the way, the author weaves in flashbacks to childhood and the war and Henry starts questioning, ever more seriously, the wisdom of the advice offered to him by his 'angel'.

The writing shows that the songwriter/author has some serious storytelling chops. Many passages exude, as one might expect, lyric-like prose. It will be interesting to read his next book. Perhaps it will be longer and more polished, while keeping the heart and song shown in this one. ( )
  zot79 | Aug 20, 2023 |
Bright's passage is a very powerful story of a World War 1 veteran's struggle with battle fatigue, better known today as a posttraumatic stress disorder. His symptoms are displayed in a rather unusual manner. He talks to angels. At first the voice seems to just come from the sky, but soon manifests itself in Bright's horse and then later in the novel his goat. What eventually becomes clear is that man is actually struggling with an inner demon. Early in the novel the angel tells Bright to set his his cabin on fire. He obeys the angel and the immediately the fire turns into a raging forest fire sending Bright and hundreds of other fleeing from it's wrath. Clearly, something is amiss with this "angel"... ( )
  kevinkevbo | Jul 14, 2023 |
I like his music, but here he lost me at the talking horse. ( )
  JasonChambers | Dec 16, 2021 |
Poetic and haunting. I loved this book. I will definitely be re-reading it sometime in the future. It reminds me very much of "Cold Mountain," with its epic but intimate scope, and has all the stately trappings of a Greek myth or a tale from the Bible. Unforgettable. ( )
1 abstimmen bugaboo_4 | Jan 3, 2021 |
Josh Ritter is bonkers, the end. ( )
  kickthebeat | Nov 1, 2020 |
This is the work of a gifted novelist, but the size of that gift has yet to be determined. One thing that is sure: Ritter has not, as yet, fully unwrapped it.
hinzugefügt von eereed | bearbeitenNew York Times, Stephen King (Jul 1, 2011)
 
The debut novel from musician Josh Ritter, a folky singer-songwriter who's been known to sing of angels, is intensely beautiful, tragic and also funny. Bright argues with the angel as if it were his own conscience, or a parent or a protector whose motives are hard to figure.
hinzugefügt von eereed | bearbeitenLos Angeles Times, Carolyn Kellogg (Jun 29, 2011)
 
Not surprisingly, the novel displays Ritter’s abundant lyrical gifts. It’s rich in metaphor and surprising moments of humor. But “Bright’s Passage’’ is ultimately a dark parable in the southern Gothic tradition of Cormac McCarthy.
hinzugefügt von eereed | bearbeitenBoston Globe, Erin Almond (Jun 29, 2011)
 
But Bright’s Passage succeeds in spite of itself, because Ritter’s ability to evoke a bygone era or a stunning image with a handful of words is as strong as it is in the best of his songs. He’s taken great care to build a fully realized world on the cusp of modernity, and he’s filled it with enigmas worth pondering. If only he’d filled it with a few recognizable human beings as well.
hinzugefügt von eereed | bearbeitenA.V. Club, Todd VanDerWerff (Jun 26, 2011)
 
Folk-rock singer-songwriter Ritter's first novel is a sometimes fatalistic, sometimes fanciful allegory about Henry Bright, a taciturn Appalachian whose wife dies in childbirth, leaving him with a son whom the angel proclaims the future King of Heaven.
hinzugefügt von Shortride | bearbeitenKirkus Reviews (May 15, 2011)
 
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Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:NATIONAL BESTSELLER
 
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 heâ??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 wifeâ??s father, the Colonel, and his two brutal sons, Brightâ??along with his newbornâ??makes his way through a ravaged landscape toward an uncertain salvation.
 
DONâ??T MISS THE EXCLUSIVE CONVERSATION BETWEEN JOSH RITTER AND NEIL GAIMAN IN THE BACK OF

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