RED SKY AT MORNING

by Richard Bradford ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 24, 1968

Josh is a stripling seventeen when his father goes off to take on Hitler, and what's worse, Navy regulations. He leaves Josh and his whiny, self-pitying and very Southern mother to sit it out in the small village of Sagrado in the mountains of New Mexico. The town boasts a marvelous assortment of diffident, dissolute characters and is happily dedicated to its many prejudices among the Angles, the Indians, and the natives, not to mention Negroes. Josh manages to survive: his best friend Steenie's medical sexology, girlfriend Marcia's (she's the rector's daughter) very unholy tongue, his mother's tippling, the advances of the Cloyd girls (You get car. . . we go far), the philosophies of local sculptor Romeo Bonino ( the first name hath it) and the threats of one Chango (who undergoes a change -- oh!) and one Tarzan who swings on booze and has notches on his knife. It's quite a little community with fiestas that get snowed out, fights and. .. as one wise adolescent exclaims ""With a bunch of sex-crazy teenagers around what can you expect?"" It all seems very much a part of a life which this first novel captures with feisty irreverence. Mr. Bradford has a warm, but saucy style.

Pub Date: May 24, 1968

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Lippincott

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1968

Categories: FICTION