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Algonquin Books
April 2007
On Sale: April 10, 2007
224 pages
ISBN: 1565125215
EAN: 9781565125216
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When Robey Childs's mother has a premonition about her
husband, a soldier fighting in the Civil War, she does the
unthinkable. She instructs her only child to retrieve his
father from the battlefield and bring him home. Just
fourteen and ill-prepared for the journey, Robey sets off
wearing the coat his mother sewed to ensure his safety: blue
on one side, gray on the other. However, it is the gift of
an uncommon horse that changes Robey's destiny— a horse that
becomes his only companion, guide, and protector. As they plunge into a world of death and destruction, Robey
is cloaked in the invincibility of youth. But the horrors of
war, the truth of his own nature, and the inextricable
connection between the two turn the boy into the best a man
can be—and the worst, irrevocably scarred by all that he has
seen and done. This "powerful, redemptive narrative" in the tradition of
The Red Badge of Courage is a brutally honest portrait of
what war does to men and how it allows—even compels—them to
love what they should hate.
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