Far Bright Star

Acclaimed author Robert Olmstead is a masterful stylist whose keen ear for dialogue has helped him earn the Heartland Prize for Fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. In 1916, veteran cavalryman Napoleon Childs leads an expedition into Mexico to capture Pancho Villa and bring him to justice. But Childs' troops--a motley assemblage of deadbeats and criminals--are greenhorns nearly to the last man. When Childs is ambushed by marauders and his hapless troops are wiped out, he is left to die alone in the unforgiving Mexican desert. Lean and muscular, yet undeniably elegant, Far Bright Side is an immediate classic of American fiction. Ed Sala's narration captures the grit and terrible beauty of Olmstead's work, leaving an indelible mark on the listener.