Name: The Coldest Night
Brand: Recorded Books, Recorded Books, Inc.
SKU: abej

Summary

A 2012 Kirkus Reviews Top 25 Book for Fiction

Selected for the April 2012 Indie Next List

An Amazon Top 100 Book of 2012

An Amazon Best Book of the Month, April 2012

The recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and the Heartland Prize for his fiction, Robert Olmstead crafts riveting prose about love, war, and the human condition. Set in 1950, The Coldest Night follows Henry, a marine who arrives in Korea just before the devastating Chosin Reservoir battle. Days of brutal fighting leave Henry forever haunted by what he's seen, but the true depth of his scars doesn't become apparent until he returns home-and finds that the combat he loathed may be the closest he'll ever come to feeling truly alive.

Editorial Reviews

“The no-rush gait, the unadorned yet unambiguous description, the resonant alliteration…This is the kind of sentence that warms The Coldest Night and makes you wonder if Olmstead was meant to be a poet. But Olmstead is a novelist, and a very good one…It’s his depiction of war’s less monstrous aspects—the continuous repositioning of troops and reshuffling of strongholds, the ceaseless anticipation of surprise attacks, the unmitigated exhaustion—that steadily unsettles…These lines lend a humanity to war that descriptions of guts and gore alone cannot.” —New York Times Book Review

“The Coldest Night is riveting, thoughtful and—in the large section set in Korea—harrowing…Olmstead is an immensely gifted stylist, his prose capable of conveying the magic and passion of first love as well as the ferocity of battle. He also has a knack for imagery as memorable as it is unexpected…Few write as powerfully or as realistically as Olmstead about the way war makes a boy grow up far too fast.” —Washington Post

“Working-class boy meets rich girl, and forbidden passion flares, in this thought-provoking, unabashedly romantic novel set in the 1950s.” —O, The Oprah Magazine

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Author Bio: Robert Olmstead

Robert Olmstead is an award-winning author and educator. His novel Coal Black Horse was the winner of the Heartland Prize for Fiction. His other fiction work includes America By Land, A Trail of Heart’s Blood Wherever We Go, Far Bright Star, and Soft Water. Olmstead is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and an NEA grant. Along with his fiction work, he has also written a textbook for fiction-writing workshops and a nonfiction memoir, Stay Here With Me. He is currently director of the creative writing program at Ohio Wesleyan University. Previously, he served as Senior Writer in Residence at Dickinson College and as director of the creative writing program at Boise State University.

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Format:	Retail CD	Format:	MP3 CD
Available Formats :	Retail CD, MP3 CD
Category:	Fiction/Literary
Publisher:	Recorded Books, Inc.	Publisher:	Recorded Books, Inc.
CDs:	7	CDs:	1
Runtime:	8.27
ISBN:	9781664409774	ISBN:	9781664666344
Audience:	Adult
Language:	English

The Coldest Night

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