Endorsements
"With a horse like this, you just want to ride. And with the descriptive power such as he displays here, Olmstead makes the ride an exciting one—in lean prose, reminiscent of Crane's Red Badge of Courage, with just the proper amount of sharp description...The characters seem to spring up out of these surroundings, universal and yet specifically lifelike, adding to a story that lingers in the mind like a faded song about a boy and his horse from Child's mountain home.
—Alan Cheuse, NPR's "All Things Considered"
"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
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