

Falling from Horses
Author: Molly Gloss
Narrator: David Aaron Baker
Unabridged: 11 hr 6 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 10/28/2014
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Coming Of Age, Western
Author: Molly Gloss
Narrator: David Aaron Baker
Unabridged: 11 hr 6 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 10/28/2014
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Coming Of Age, Western
Molly Gloss is a writer living in Portland, Oregon. Her novel The Jump-Off Creek was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for American Fiction and winner of both the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award and the Oregon Book Award. In 1996 Molly received a Whiting Writers Award. She is also the author of The Dazzle of Day, a New York Times Notable Book and a PEN Center West Fiction Prize winner, and Wild Life, which won the James Tiptree Jr. Award.
reread in 2023. Truly an astonishing novel on this second read. Loved it the first time, loved it even more this time! There was an early review by someone who had expected this to be the glamour-stories of Hollywood. Instead she found truth and was not one bit happy. Horses and men were cruelly mis......more
Falling from Horses is a gentle story about an ordinary ranching kid that ventures forth into the chaos of Hollywood in the late 1930s. He’s looking to find himself and to forget about his past. It’s likely that if I had been a big fan of the black-and-white Western movies of the ‘30s, then this nov......more
This book is told more than finely written: Many chapters are told first person by the protagonist, Bud Frazer, a rancher turned stunt rider in the movies in the 1930s. And even the interspersed third-person sections have a meandering "telling a story" feel. I've never really thought about old Weste......more