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Josh reads the first chapter of his debut novel, Bright's Passage.Bright's Passage is available as a limited edition 6-CD audiobook set with an accompanying ...
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Watch our conversation with Josh Ritter here: http://to.pbs.org/m39XFKJosh Ritter reads from his novel, "Bright's Passage."
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Josh Ritter talks about writing Bright's Passage and WWI. Jul 14,2011
Jan 1, 2011 · "Bright's Passage" is a beautifully told narrative (one that reads quickly as more a short story than a novel) about a World War I veteran from West Virginia named Henry Bright whose wife has died in childbirth, leaving him in charge of caring for his infant son.
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Jul 1, 2011 · Henry Bright is pretty much your ordinary 20th-century West Virginia farmboy, with one notable exception: when he winds up in the World War I trenches in France, he begins hearing voices.
Jun 29, 2011 · World War I veteran Henry Bright arrives home to a rural landscape that has changed little since he’s been away. As the book opens, he delivers his first child, then buries his wife when she dies...
Jun 29, 2011 · The relationship between Bright and the Colonel’s family is revealed as the story unspools; it is frightening and dark, a contrast to his caring mother and the simple life she built for them.
