A Novel by Robert Olmstead
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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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