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Title: Red Sky at Morning : A Novel by Richard Bradford ISBN: 0-06-093190-6 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.77 (31 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Red Sky at Morning - a new friend is found.
Comment: It has been so long since I've had time to read anything fictional. There's not a lot of time in a middle-aged guy's day to spend on fluff like that. Then I ran across this book at an estate sale my wife was dragging me through one day (I collect books but rarely read them) and the short exerpt of Mr. Arnold's admonition to Josh to take care of his mother while he was away on the cover leaf caught my eye. Throughout the book there is a frankness between Josh and his father that I strive for with my son ... sometimes successfully. Mr. Arnold had come to the conclusion that he has brought into the world an intelligent young man and he treats Josh just that way. If more fathers would have a relationship like this with their kids most of this country's problems would disappear in less than a decade! This book is worth more than its weight in 24k GOLD. It will always be one of my most cherished garage sale finds. (Its the fifth printing version of the 1968 release)
Josh, himself, is a smart kid. Perhaps it's because his author is pretty sharp himself as youthful ignorance seems to be missing in much of Josh's observations and narration. Nevertheless, this story takes me back so smoothly, successfully and with such wonderful dead-pan humor that I made time for it almost every night before my eyes slammed shut until I'd read the whole thing. Now I ache for my kids to add this book to their reading experience. Once I read with incredulity of that Southern delicacy called Coca-Cola ham I was hooked and laughed my way through the rest of the book. I fervently hope my kids will too.
My wife is Mexican-American. I was always jealous of the kids that could speak Spanish in school and thus maintain their privacy in a crowd. That makes our kids half Mexican and our son speaks it regularly with his abuela. Our daughter, welllll... I delved into my Spanish/English dictionary, and my wife's knowledge, many times throughout this book because it thrills me to learn what I can of this language in an everyday setting. This being the case, it makes this book doubly good for those who have an interest (if you don't you ought to) in our country's "second" language. Even though many of the phrases may be from a era strange to us now it opens a wonderful and accurate picture into the Hispanic community in a much simpler time. This book will help those of us outside the Hipanic community understand the pride that comes from being born into it and the distinct priviledge of being welcomed into it.
Rating: 5
Summary: You can't read it just once.....
Comment: It's funny; I've read this book at least 10 times and I see from the reviews here that lots of people have seen fit to revisit Red Sky at Morning.
I, too, grew up in the "real" Sagrado. In fact, Bradford's son and I were briefly acquainted as teenagers. I think the book is more autobiographical than Bradford would like to admit; my aunt has said that almost all of the teenaged characters were recognizable as actual people at the local high school at that time--especially Chango.
Any time I'm homesick, all I have to do is reread the book and I'm right back home again. I'm glad that so many people from so many walks of life have enjoyed it as much as I have. It totally captures, very affectionately, all of the GOOD things about Northern New Mexico--things you wish would stay the same forever.
It's like Catcher in the Rye, but it's warmer. It lovingly represents the wholly unique people of Northern New Mexico, who are unlike people anywhere else in the world. But it also reflects human nature and adaptation through scenes of humor, pain, the clashing and meshing of cultures, and the inevitable unwelcome changes that come with the passage of time. Red Sky at Morning bears witness to the coming of age of Joshua Arnold--the futile battle to remain young and untouched by the uglier side of the world, the bittersweet and inevitable transformation of boy to man. It was originally an allegory, I believe, parelleling Josh's growing pains with those of a post-war America. Ironically, it is now an allegory for what has become of the "real" Corazon, Sagrado--full of bittersweet memories--the end of an old road and the beginning of newer, less innocent one.
Just beware: you won't be able to put it down and you WILL read it again and again. It really is that good.
Rating: 4
Summary: Red Sky At Morning (mercy highschool)
Comment: This book, Red Sky At Morning by Richard Bradford, is set during the time of World War II when people all over the world were struggling and about a boy who learn to appreciate people of a different race. It is about a boy name Josh, who has been raised in the ways of Mobile, Alabama. His father, Frank Arnold is a wealthy ship builder, who gets his volunteer commission in the U.S navy. Frank decides to move his wife and 17-year-old josh to the family summerhouse in Corazon Sagrado, in the high mountains of New Mexico. Mrs. Arnold finds it hard to get by living in a highly populated Hispanic village. Josh on the other hand becomes a part of the Hispanic community. Josh goes to school at Helen De Crispin where he found many new friends and he is fascinated with the culture. The book talks about the people who come and change the life of josh, the people who influenced his progress to maturity. In New Mexico is where josh finds himself and where he finally understands the meaning of responsibility and love.
This book really brings you back to the good old times, the times when we were curious about everything. Josh doesn't fit in much with the community, but after no time he shows interest and curiosity in his summerhouse. The village, the setting, and the people help him to find himself and find maturity. By the end of the book he is totally different from what he was when he just came to the village. This book should be read especially because people and teenagers especially can relate to it. A lot of people are going through life changing period and many teenagers can relate to this book. It can bring the older people back to their young and curiosity age. Every one should read this book.
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