Red sky at morning / Richard Bradford.
By: Bradford, Richard
Publisher: New York : Harper Perennial, 1999Description: 246 p. ; 21 cmISBN: 9780060931902Report number: BV-Winter/Spring 21Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945 -- New Mexico -- Fiction | Young men -- Fiction | New Mexico -- FictionGenre/Form: War fiction. | Bildungsromans. | War stories.Summary: In the summer of 1944, Frank Arnold, a wealthy shipbuilder in Mobile, Alabama, receives his volunteer commission in the U.S. Navy and moves his wife, Ann, and seventeen-year-old son, Josh, to the family's summer home in the village of Corazon Sagrado, high in the New Mexico mountains. A true daughter of the Confederacy, Ann finds it impossible to cope with the quality of life in the largely Hispanic village and, in the company of Jimbob Buel, an insufferable, South-proud, professional houseguest, takes to bridge and sherry. Josh, on the other hand, becomes an integral member of the Sagrado community, forging friendships with his new classmates, with the town's disreputable resident artist, and with Amadeo and Excilda Montoya, the couple hired by his father to care for their house.| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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In the summer of 1944, Frank Arnold, a wealthy shipbuilder in Mobile, Alabama, receives his volunteer commission in the U.S. Navy and moves his wife, Ann, and seventeen-year-old son, Josh, to the family's summer home in the village of Corazon Sagrado, high in the New Mexico mountains. A true daughter of the Confederacy, Ann finds it impossible to cope with the quality of life in the largely Hispanic village and, in the company of Jimbob Buel, an insufferable, South-proud, professional houseguest, takes to bridge and sherry. Josh, on the other hand, becomes an integral member of the Sagrado community, forging friendships with his new classmates, with the town's disreputable resident artist, and with Amadeo and Excilda Montoya, the couple hired by his father to care for their house.