Robert Olmstead, Author . Algonquin $22.95 (218p) ISBN 978-1-56512-521-6
Olmstead's new work (after Stay Here with Me
) is a convulsive, bloody Civil War tale that tracks a boy's search for his father on the battlefield at Gettysburg. At 14, Robey Childs is on the cusp of manhood when he sets off from the family...
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Robert Olmstead, Author . Algonquin $23.95 (207p) ISBN 978-1-56512-592-6
In his seventh novel, Olmstead (Coal Black Horse
) delivers another richly characterized, tightly woven story of nature, inevitability and the human condition. In 1916, the aging Napoleon Childs assembles a cavalry to search for the elusive bandit...
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Robert Olmstead, Author Vintage Books USA $6.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-394-74684-5
The appealing characters in these short stories are mountain loggers, farmers, stonecutters and truckers in upper New York State and northern New England. They lead simple, rustic, routine lives that, in certain moments, which the author captures...
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Robert Olmstead, Author Vintage Books USA $6.95 (226p) ISBN 978-0-394-75752-0
The author of the short-story collection River Dogs revisits rural New England in this incessantly tense first novel. After he is orphaned, Asel is raised by a brutal German immigrant on a work farm for foster children, and then runs away to join...
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Robert Olmstead, Author Random House (NY) $19.95 (401p) ISBN 978-0-394-57539-1
A New Hampshire town is the microcosm of a world on the edge of damnation in this sprawling, offbeat saga. Eddie Ryan, Vietnam vet and frustrated poet, is a mortician who believes ``death is the opposite of love, not life.'' Cody, a footloose,...
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Robert Olmstead, Author Avon Books $11 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-71548-0
New Hampshire mortician Eddie Ryan befriends Cody, a renegade logger who moves in with the Ryan family after bringing in a dead co-worker; Eddie and Cody's subsequent adventures are peopled with oddballs and punctuated by deaths tragic or bizarre....
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Robert Olmstead, Author Random House (NY) $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-41130-7
With terse and arresting images and lyricism as deft as Michael Ondaatje's, this diverting road book unwinds its simple story of love and discovery through the dams and canyons, plains and deserts of interstate-America. Raymond Romeo Redfield rides...
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Robert Olmstead, Author Henry Holt & Company $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8050-4162-0
A novelist's sometimes lyrical, sometimes taut reminiscences of the summer of 1972 read very much like an appealing, slightly old-fashioned coming-of-age novel. It was the summer before Olmstead's senior year in high school, the summer he fell in...
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Robert Olmstead. Algonquin, $22.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-61620-043-5
Olmstead’s (Far Bright Star) elegiac, gritty coming-of-age novel is presented in three dramatic sections: Part I finds 17-year-old Henry Childs living with his mother, a nurse, in Appalachia, W.Va., during the spring of 1950. His father largely...
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Robert Olmstead. Algonquin, $26.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-61620-412-9
Hunters, skinners, and teamsters slaughter herds of buffalo on the Old West plains of 1873 in Olmstead’s ninth novel, in an orgy of killing for profit on a grand and wasteful scale. Olmstead (Coal Black Horse) presents a grim, gruesome tale of...
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