In a new novel from the best-selling author of 'The Hearts of Horses' and 'The Jump-Off Creek', a young ranch hand escapes a family tragedy and travels to Hollywood to become a stunt rider. In 1938, nineteen-year-old ranch hand Bud Frazer sets out for Hollywood. His little sister has been gone a couple of years now, his parents are finding ranch work and comfort for their loss where they can, but for Bud, Echol Creek, where he grew up and first learned to ride, is a place he can no longer call home. So he sets his sights on becoming a stunt rider in the movies ? and rubbing shoulders with the great screen cowboys of his youth. On the long bus ride south, Bud meets a young woman who also harbours 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, confident in ways out of proportion with her small frame and bookish looks. But the two 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, 'Falling from Horses' charts what was to be a glittering year in the movie business through the wide eyes and lofty dreams of two people trying to make their mark on the world, or at least make their way in it. Molly Gloss weaves a remarkable tale of humans and horses, hope and heartbreak, narrated by one of the most winning narrators ever to walk off the page. AUTHOR: Molly Gloss is the author of 'Wild Life', winner of the James Tiptree Award, 'The Jump-Off Creek', a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and 'The Dazzle of Day', a New York Times Notable Book. She lives in Portland, Oregon. REVIEWS: "I read Falling from Horses in two gulps. The writing is gorgeous, the setting so beautifully realized, both time and place, the narrative voice unforgettable, and all the characters so real and compelling. Tremendous, page-turning....I could not have loved it more." ?Karen Joy Fowler, author of 'We Are All Completely beside Ourselves' and 'The Jane Austen Book Club' "Falling from Horses is a clear-eyed, breathtaking look at a small corner of life unknown to most: cowboy stunt riders in 1930's Hollywood. Gloss adeptly brings to life characters in search of the American Dream, while illuminating the "myth of the cowboy West" and the harsh realities that come along with it. A moving story filled with heart and insight by an author whose love of the American landscape rings loudly through each page." ?Gail Tsukiyama, author of 'A Hundred Flowers' and 'The Samurai's Garden' ALL TITLES FROM MOLLY GLOSS: 9780618565870 The Jump-Off Creek 9780544279292 Falling from Horses
