Giveaway Week Finale: The Coldest Night
Welcome to the final installment of Algonquin’s Giveaway Week! It’s been a week of wonderful books, but Friday we’re in love with Robert Olmstead’s The Coldest Night.
“It’s extremes that rivet us in Olmstead’s searing seventh novel: the heaven of first love; the hell of the battlefield . . . Olmstead’s extraordinary language gives us new eyes. An exceptionally fine study of love, war and the double-edged role of memory, which can both sustain and destroy. Prize-winning material.”–Kirkus Reviews, starred review
The Coldest Night
by Robert Olmstead
Henry Childs is just seventeen when he falls into a love affair so intense it nearly consumes him. But when young Mercy’s disapproving father threatens Henry’s life, Henry runs as far as he can–to the other side of the world.
It is 1950 and the Korean War hangs in the balance. Descended from a long line of soldiers, Henry enlists in the marines and arrives in Korea on the eve of the brutal seventeen-day battle of the Chosin Reservoir–the turning point of the war–completely unprepared for the forbidding Korean landscape and the unimaginable circumstances of a war well beyond the scope of anything his ancestors ever aced. But the challenges he meets upon his return home, scarred and haunted, are greater by far.
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Please, please offer this book on Giveaway Monday! I checked this Web site three times last Friday, and you had not updated the post from your Day-4 Giveaway. I thought I also checked Saturday, but I guess not. I know this for sure, though: I read your Facebook posts for Friday and Saturday. Yes, I suscribe to you on Facebook as well.