Virgin Spring: A Southwest Story of Romance and Adventure

I can still remember the thrill when I, as the young publicity director, read Richard Bradford's "Red Sky At Morning" and then had the pleasure and the honor of promoting his first novel. What excitement when the reviews came in and it started climbing the best seller lists...and then stayed up there too! We celebrated every time it went back to press -- it is a classic now. When I read "Virgin Spring" I felt, as Richard Bradford himself says, that it is an "engaging" coming-of age story of young Nic Nichols. We all have had to ride our own broncos in our lives, but Nic's are the real ones and his journey is, in effect, our own. It is enchanting and, set against the magic that is the Southwest, I found I could not put this book down.

This is the strong yet touching story about the coming-of-age of a young man who after a series of disasters at eastern boarding schools is sent by his parents to Arizona as his "last chance". It is an excellent tale well told and the book has great detail and color of life in Arizona during the early 1940's. I recommend this book highly.