Coal Black Horse

Name: Coal Black Horse
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ISBN: 9781565125216

ISBN-10: 1565125215

ISBN-13: 9781565125216

Edition: 2007

Authors: Robert Olmstead

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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 instructs her only child to retrieve his father from the battlefield and bring him home. Just fourteen and ill-prepared for the journey, Robey sets off wearing the coat his mother sewed to ensure his safety: blue on one side, gray on the other. However, it is the gift of an uncommon horse that changes Robey's destiny-- a horse that becomes his only companion, guide, and protector. As they plunge into a world of death and destruction, Robey is cloaked in the invincibility of youth. But the horrors of war, the truth of his own nature, and the inextricable…

Book details

List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Publication date: 4/10/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Robert Olmstead is the author of seven previous books. Coal Black Horse was the winner of the Heartland Prize for Fiction and the Ohioana Award, and was a #1 Book Sense pick and a Border’s Discover pick. Far Bright Star was the winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an NEA grant, and is a professor at Ohio Wesleyan University.