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Summary: An Old Favorite
Review: The year I first found this book, I gave a copy to everyone on my Christmas list. Over the years -- now decades -- it has been my pleasure to introduce to Red Sky At Morning everyone important who comes into my life. I buy multiple copies, give them away, buy more. May it never go out of print.Do not, I repeat DO NOT see the film by the same title. It captured all the "events" and to my amazement, none of the humor, warmth, poignancy and joy. For those who have not yet read it -- lucky, lucky you! I know the experience that awaits you.
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Summary: An absolutely wonderful book
Review: This book is destined to be a classic for its deadpan humor and dry wit about a young man who is coming of age. It reminds me slightly of Salinger's classic "The Catcher in the Rye".
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Summary: Red Sky At Morning (mercy highschool)
Review: 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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Summary: GREAT
Review: This is a great book! It's written from a seventeen-year old boy's point of view and it's really funny and entertaining.
When his father, Frank Arnold, decides to voluntarily join the Navy and fight in World War II despite the fact that he is much older than most of the recruits, Josh and his mom move to Sagrado (from Mobile, Alabama). Josh becomes good friends with Steenie Stenopolus, Marcia Davidson, Chango Lopez, Romeo Bonino, and Viola Montoya. After a while, things start to go downwards for Josh. Then everything starts to be fine and good in Josh's life again, things get even worse. Josh grows and changes a lot throughout the book, but he has to become an adault way too soon.
This is a very vague summary (i didn't want to give anything away)
READ THIS BOOK!!! It's great for teenagers as well as adults! This is only the second book that i've actually laughed out loud while reading (the other is A hichhiker's guide to the galaxy by douglas adams)
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Summary: pretty good
Review: This is a novel in which the characters truly make the story a worthwhile read. After all, I had a difficult time identifying a solid thread of plot. This is a coming-of-age story revolving around seventeen-year-old Josh, who moves with his mother from the deep South to (presumably) somewhere in New Mexico while Dad goes off to fight in World War II. Josh makes a handful of unusual friends: "Stinney" the Greek doctor's son who wants to be a commando, Marcia the foul-mouthed virgin, Chango the gangster-turned-angel and Viola, whose conversation is peppered with the words "Saint Theresa."
The main action, what there is of it (and the way the characters bounce off eachother, it is hardly needed), involves a search for the kid who stabbed Chango, and also Josh's attempts to pry sherry-guzzling guest Jimbo out of the house. (But if he succeeds, who will Mother play bridge with?)
It is the wry humor and lively characterization--exemplified by Marcia's disgust that girls, even prospective doctors, are kept from watching the STD presentation--that makes this book a quick, satisfying read.
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Summary: wry and lively
Review: This is a novel in which the characters truly make the story a worthwhile read. After all, I had a difficult time identifying a solid thread of plot. This is a coming-of-age story revolving around seventeen-year-old Josh, who moves with his mother from the deep South to (presumably) somewhere in New Mexico while Dad goes off to fight in World War II. Josh makes a handful of unusual friends: "Stinney" the Greek doctor's son who wants to be a commando, Marcia the foul-mouthed virgin, Chango the gangster-turned-angel and Viola, whose conversation is peppered with the words "Saint Theresa."
The main action, what there is of it (and the way the characters bounce off eachother, it is hardly needed), involves a search for the kid who stabbed Chango, and also Josh's attempts to pry sherry-guzzling guest Jimbo out of the house. (But if he succeeds, who will Mother play bridge with?)
It is the wry humor and lively characterization--exemplified by Marcia's disgust that girls, even prospective doctors, are kept from watching the STD presentation--that makes this book a quick, satisfying read.
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Summary: ....A Reader's Delight
Review: While I was browsing through the stacks at the library, I noticed that Harper Lee gave this a good blurb. That was good enough for me! The teenage narrator, Josh, has a really engaging attitude. He has a close relationship with his dad--who, as the novel opens, leaves his Mobile, Alabama shipyard for a stint in the Navy during WWII. Josh and his "Southern aristocrat" mom are supposed to wait out the war at the family's summer home in New Mexico. This has no adolescent angst or self-conscious soul-searching that marks so many coming-of-age novels. Josh makes good friends at school, has a lot of adventures and meets interesting characters. Josh is open-minded, honest with himself, and is not afraid to ask for help if he needs it. His story is compelling, and every few pages I laughed out loud. This should definitely be on the required reading list of any high school. For the adult reader, it's the sort of book you can enjoy, pass around to friends, and look forward to reading again.
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