Falling from Horses, Molly Gloss
Falling from Horses, Molly Gloss
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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


Synopsis

In 1938, 19-year-old cowboy Bud Frazer sets his sights on becoming a stunt rider in the movies. Fantasizing about rubbing shoulders with the great screen cowboys of his youth, he leaves his home in Echol Creek, Oregon, and heads for Hollywood. On the long bus ride south, Bud meets a young woman who also harbors dreams of making it in the movies, though not as a starlet but as a writer, a real writer. Lily Shaw is bold and outspoken and confident in ways completely out of proportion with her small frame and bookish looks. The two proceed to strike up an unlikely kinship that will carry them through their tumultuous days in Hollywood -- and, as it happens, for the rest of their lives. Acutely observed and impeccably authentic, FALLING FROM HORSES charts what turns out to be a glittering year in the movie business, seen through the wide eyes and lofty dreams of two people trying to make their mark on the world, or at least to make their way in it. As she did so memorably in her previous novel, the bestselling THE HEARTS OF HORSES, Molly Gloss weaves a remarkable tale of humans and horses, hope and heartbreak. Molly Gloss is also the author of The Jump-Off Creek, a winner of both the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award and the Oregon Book Award, The Dazzle of Day, a New York Times Notable Book and winner of the PEN Center West Fiction Prize, and Wild Life, winner of the James Tiptree Jr. Award.

About Molly Gloss

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jan on December 18, 2023

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

Goodreads review by Daniel on June 11, 2024

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

Goodreads review by Betsy on June 09, 2014

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