You will feel the desert more than you thought possible. You will feel the sun, the dust and the fear of a coming battle. In 1916 there is still a cavalry and they are in Mexico chasing after Pancho Villa. Far Bright Star takes you there in the clear, sparse prose of Robert Olmstead. This is more than a war story. It is about men who lead others into terrible circumstances, and about the last cavalrymen who love and understand their horses better than they understand men. You will learn to read the sky for water and listen while the horses tell you that something bad is coming. If you have read Cormac McCarthy, you will be at home with Robert Olmstead.

Far Bright Star (Paperback)

By Robert Olmstead

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ISBN-13: 9781565129801
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Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 5/2010

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