The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All - A Novel

"I loved this mythic American story. My heart overflowed with affection and raced with terror for Weldon Applegate! Josh Ritter's lyrical imagination frolics unfettered on page after fast-turning page." -Anaïs Mitchell, writer of Hadestown

In the tiny timber town of Cordelia, Idaho, everyone has heard tales of the Applegates. Local legend says their family line boasts some of the greatest lumberjacks to ever roam the American West, and from the moment young Weldon stepped foot in the deep Cordelia woods as a child, he dreamed of joining the rowdy ranks of his ancestors in their epic axe-swinging adventures. But at the beginning of the twentieth century, times are changing fast, and the jacks are dying out.

On his deathbed nearly a century later, Weldon Applegate recounts his life in all its glory, filled with tall tales writ large with murder, mayhem, avalanches and bootlegging. It's the story of dark pine forests brewing with ancient magic, and Weldon's struggle as a boy to keep his father's inherited timber claim, the Lost Lot, from the ravenous clutches of Linden Laughlin.

About the author

Josh Ritter is a songwriter from Moscow, Idaho. His albums include The Animal Years and So Runs the World Away. Bright’s Passage was his first novel. He lives in New York.

Product details

• Authors: Josh Ritter, Ritter Josh
• Publisher: Harper Collins (US)
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.10.2022
• EAN: 9781335475084
• ISBN: 978-1-335-47508-4
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 203 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 193 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Historical / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction: special features, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary