Review:
"Robert Olmstead gets better with every book. If you know all of his previous books, you know how startling this fact is, and how startlingly good this writer is."
─Tom Franklin, author of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
"The precision and poetry of the author's language have a paradoxical effect: they make the setting strange and distinct while imbuing characters and their actions with a particular immediacy . . . A story about America told through its land and its animals and its diverse people and, especially, through the experiences of two vivid, singular, powerful characters. Another gorgeous, brutal masterpiece from a great American writer."
─Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"This is a powerful depiction of the brutality of the Old West, where life was cheap and easily taken."
─Publishers Weekly
"Fans of Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove will enjoy this thoroughly researched epic Western."
─Library Journal
"[A] deeply emotional experience . . . Savage Country is an unforgettable, unflinching, yet distinctly moving story of human greed and desire."
─BookPage
"Like so many outstanding novels about the taming of the West, there is a tragic ambiguity at the heart of Olmstead's brutal but beautiful tale of the last buffalo hunt. For a certain kind of uncompromising yet lyrical writer - think Cormac McCarthy, Larry McMurtry, or William Kittredge - the West offers a stage for a special kind of archetypal, almost Shakespearean tragedy, and Olmstead makes the most of it."
─Booklist (starred review)
"[Olmstead] has crafted another dark, contemplative western with his new novel . . . his brutally spare sentences create an apocalyptic mood reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy."
─ Shelf Awareness (starred review)
"[A] majestic, thrilling tale of a small band of people hunting buffalo in the territory south of Kansas in the tense and unpredictable years after the Civil War."
─Columbus Dispatch
About the Author:
Robert Olmstead is the author of eight previous books. Coal Black Horse was the winner of the Heartland Prize for Fiction. The Coldest Night was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Far Bright Star was the winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award. Olmstead is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an NEA grant and is a professor at Ohio Wesleyan University.
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