When Robey Childs’s mother has a premonition about her husband, a soldier fighting in the Civil War, she does the unthinkable: she sends her only child to find his father on the battlefield and bring him home.
At fourteen, wearing the coat his mother sewed to ensure his safety–blue on one side, gray on the other– Robey thinks he’s off on a great adventure. But not far from home, his horse falters and he realizes the enormity of his task. It takes the gift of a powerful and noble coal black horse to show him how to undertake the most important journey of his life: with boldness, bravery, and self-posession. Coal Black Horse joins the pantheon of great war novels–All Quiet on the Western Front, The Red Badge of Courage, The Naked and the Dead.Author: Robert Olmstead
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 05/20/2008
Pages: 229
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781565126015
Language: English
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