{"product_id":"brights-passage-a-novel-9781400069507","title":"Bright's Passage: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrights Passage shines with a compressed lyricism that recalls Ray Bradbury in his primeThis is the work of a gifted novelist  Stephen King  The New York Times Book Review Josh Ritters 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 hes 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 wifes 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 Ritters songs beloved to so many  this is the debut of a virtuoso fiction writer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45953157169205,"sku":"ByrdShop_1400069505","price":27.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781400069507.jpg?v=1788180094","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/brights-passage-a-novel-9781400069507","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}