Bright's Passage

{{Short description|Book by Josh Ritter}}

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| author = Josh Ritter

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| country = United States

| language = English

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| publisher = Dial Press

| release_date = June 28th 2011

| media_type = Print

| pages = 208

| isbn = 978-1-4000-6950-7

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Bright's Passage is the debut novel by singer/songwriter Josh Ritter. It is published by Dial Press and was released June 28, 2011.{{Cite web|url=http://www.twentyfourbit.com/post/397052565/random-house-to-publish-josh-ritter-novel-brights|title=Random House to Publish Josh Ritter Novel 'Bright's Passage' – TwentyFourBit|date=24 March 2012 }} The first chapter had been previously released for free download on Ritter's official website.{{cite web |url=http://joshritter.com/2011/03/03/brights-passage-joshs-debut-novel-in-stores-june-28th/ |title=Archived Document |accessdate=2011-03-23 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110312035656/http://joshritter.com/2011/03/03/brights-passage-joshs-debut-novel-in-stores-june-28th/ |archivedate=2011-03-12 }}

Blurb

The novel follows a young, widowed veteran of the First World War, Henry Bright, as he and his infant son, along with an unlikely guardian angel flee from a forest fire and Bright's cruel in-laws. Shifting between their strange journey through West Virginia's hickory-canopied foothills, Bright's plausible memories of the trenches of France, and recollections from his childhood, the novel is at times suspenseful and kinetic, quiet and eerie, and at times humorous.

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