# Red Sky at Morning - Paperback

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by **Richard Bradford** (Author)

**"_Red Sky at Morning_ is a minor marvel: it is a novel of paradox, of identity, of an overwhelming YES to life that embraces with wonder what we are pleased to call the human condition. In short, a work of art." -- Harper Lee**

  

**Hailed by the _Washington  
Post Book World_ as "a sort of _Catcher  
in the Rye_ out West," Richard  
Bradford's _Red Sky at Morning_ is the  
classic coming-of-age story set during World War II about the enduring spirit  
of youth and the values in life that count.**

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.

  

Josh narrates the story  
of his fateful year in Sagrado and, with irresistibly deadpan, irreverent humor, describes the  
events and people who influence his progress to maturity. Unhindered by his  
mother's disdain for these "tacky, dusty little Westerners," Josh  
comes into his own and into a young man's finely formed understanding of duty,  
responsibility, and love.

### Front Jacket

The classic coming-of-age story set during World War II about the enduring spirit of youth and the values in life that count.--**Harper Lee**

**Number of Pages:** 256

**Dimensions:** 0.62 x 8 x 5.34 IN

**Publication Date:** March 13, 2026

**Accelerated Reader:**

**Quiz Name:** Red Sky at Morning

**Interest Level:** Upper Grades, 9-12

**Reading Level:** 5.4

**Point Value:** 11

## Details

- **Price:** 24.99 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** 20th Century, Books, Fiction, Historical, Price Written on Book, Suspense, Thrillers

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