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"Olmstead has the skill for lending every present moment an extraordinary, sensuous
glow." ---Madison Smartt Bell, New York Times
"Brilliant and compelling.... Olmstead writes with warmth, compassion, and affection."
---Chicago Tribune
"Olmstead's writing is energized by the tensions between different ways of looking
at the world.... The reader wants it to go on indefinitely --or to start all over
again." ---The New Yorker
"Robert Olmstead is an original in the American grain.... From the world of his
work ---muscular and male---he has fashioned a fresh and vital language."
---Tobias Wolff
"Robert Olmstead's fable COAL BLACK HORSE is deft, moving, intensely readable and just about
tone perfect." --Richard Ford
"Coal Black Horse" is a mesmerizing descent into the hypnotic and violent hell of war. Olmstead
has given us another spare and brilliant story of family, allegiance, and love."
--Anthony Swofford
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