Far Bright Star

Name: Far Bright Star
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Robert Olmstead
ISBN: 9781440760587

Author: Robert Olmstead

Narrator: Ed Sala

Unabridged: 6 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/18/2009

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Military Fiction

Synopsis

Acclaimed author Robert Olmstead's Far Bright Star "packs a potent emotional wallop" (Booklist). In 1916, aging cavalryman Napoleon Childs leads an expedition into Mexico to capture Pancho Villa and bring him to justice. But Childs' troops are wiped out, and he is left to die alone in the Mexican desert. "[This] brilliantly expressive, condensed tale of resilience and dusty determination flows with the kind of literary cadence few writers have mastered."-Publishers Weekly

About Robert Olmstead

Robert Olmstead is the author of eight books. The Coldest Night was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2012, a Kirkus Reviews Top 25 Fiction Book of 2012, and an Amazon Best Book of 2012. Coal Black Horse was the winner of the Heartland Prize for Fiction and the Ohioana Award and was a #1 Book Sense pick. 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bob

3.5 stars In the author’s afterword to Far Bright Star, Robert Olmstead observes: “It seems we have never not been at war—our world, our country, our people—and there are those among us when the solemn call is made who are willing to answer. It seems to constitute the blood that flows through us. It......more

Goodreads review by Steve

If, years from now, there were a recognized school of Cormac McCarthy influenced writers, there is little doubt – to my mind at least --that Robert Olmstead would be pointed out as the leading practitioner. Olmstead knows the drill – guns, extreme violence, campfire philosophy, gorgeous (and stark)......more

Goodreads review by John of Canada

Cowboys,horses,shoot em up,what's not to like?Olmstead is a very good writer.the history,is very interesting,there are even airplanes.Fans of Cormac McCarthy and William Carlos Blake should find this right up their alley.......more