A01=Robert Olmstead
Author_Robert Olmstead
battlefield
bring him home
brutality
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civil war
courage
enormous task
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find his father
fourteen years old
great adventure
homemade shirt
horse
husband
landscape
most important journey
mother
noble
only child
powerful
premonition
raise a gun
safety
scarred
senselessness
shooting
soldier
surrogate
unthinkable
war
Product details
- ISBN 9781565126015
- Weight: 240g
- Dimensions: 138 x 206mm
- Publication Date: 20 May 2008
- Publisher: Workman Publishing
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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When Robey Childs's mother has a premonition about her husband, a soldier fighting in the Civil War, she does the unthinkable: she sends her only child to find his father on the battlefield and bring him home. At fourteen, wearing the coat his mother sewed to ensure his safety—blue on one side, gray on the other— Robey thinks he's off on a great adventure. But not far from home, his horse falters and he realizes the enormity of his task. It takes the gift of a powerful and noble coal black horse to show him how to undertake the most important journey of his life: with boldness, bravery, and self-posession.Coal Black Horse joins the pantheon of great war novels—All Quiet on the Western Front, The Red Badge of Courage, The Naked and the Dead.
Robert Olmstead is the author of eight previous books. Coal Black Horse was the winner of the Heartland Prize for Fiction. The Coldest Night was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Far Bright Star was the winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award. Olmstead is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an NEA grant and is a professor at Ohio Wesleyan University.
