Falling from Horses, by Molly Gloss
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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 busy with ranch work and are finding 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.
Falling from Horses, by Molly Gloss - Brand: Gloss, Molly
- Published on: 2015-03-01
- Format: Large Print
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.60" h x 1.40" w x 5.90" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Library Binding
- 500 pages
Falling from Horses, by Molly Gloss Review “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 “The story of a boy growing up into a man by way of ambition, adventure, catastrophe, love, and grief. A beautiful, moving novel, cut from the American heartwood.”— Ursula K. Le Guin, author of Lavinia and The Unreal and the Real: Selected Short Stories “Molly Gloss is always exploring that dangerous place where reality and imagination combine to form the American West, and never more than in this book, plunging as it does into the heart of the dream machine. She has a tremendous gift for bringing a situation alive, so be ready: you’re about to live these lives. It’s a great experience.” — Kim Stanley Robinson, author of Shaman and 2312 “Falling from Horses is a beautifully crafted story of the friendship that develops between two young people—a ranch hand and an aspiring screenwriter—as they try to make it in the movies in 1930s Hollywood. Molly Gloss makes the little seen life of a movie stuntman and a back lot script girl come alive in this entertaining and often touching tale of a naive young man and woman who are trying to live their dreams.” — Phillip Margolin, New York Times best-selling author of Worthy Brown's Daughter “Falling From Horses is a clear-eyed, breathtaking look at a small corner of life unknown to most: cowboy stunt riders in 1930s 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 “The acute sense of time and place, coupled with a cast of characters drawn with unsentimental but abiding affection, makes for a hypnotic read.” — KirkusReviews
From the Inside Flap In 1938, nineteen-year-old ranch hand Bud Frazer sets out for Hollywood. His little sister has been gone for a couple of years now and his parents are finding 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 harbors dreams of making it in the movies, as a writer — a real writer. Lily Shaw is bold and outspoken, confident in a way that seems out of proportion with her small frame and bookish looks. 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.
From the Back Cover “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 “The story of a boy growing up into a man by way of ambition, adventure, catastrophe, love, and grief. A beautiful, moving novel, cut from the American heartwood.” — Ursula K. Le Guin, author of Lavinia and The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories “Clear-eyed, breathtaking . . . 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 “Falling from Horses is a beautifully crafted story of the friendship that develops between two young people as they try to make it in the movies. Molly Gloss makes the little-seen life of a movie stuntman and a back lot script girl come alive in this entertaining and often touching tale.” — Phillip Margolin, author of Worthy Brown’s Daughter “Molly Gloss is always exploring that dangerous place where reality and imagination combine to form the American West, and never more than in this book, plunging as it does into the heart of the dream machine. She has a tremendous gift for bringing a situation alive, so be ready: you’re about to live these lives. It’s a great experience.” — Kim Stanley Robinson, author of Shaman and 2312
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Gloss is back after a seven-year silence. Worth the wait. Highly recommended By Timothy J. Bazzett I have been waiting impatiently for that next novel from Molly Gloss, a Portland writer I first discovered several years ago when I read The Hearts of Horses (2007), a novel that captured my heart and imagination, with its story of Martha Lessen, a young "horse whisperer" in eastern Oregon during the closing years of World War I. Fortunately there were a couple other Gloss novels to occupy me for a time, both of which I devoured in short order. Gloss seems to be working her way forward in time and down the west coast in her work. The Jump-Off Creek (1989), which has become something of a western classic in the past twenty-five years, is set in mountainous frontier Oregon of the 1890s, while Wild Life (2000), a fantastically strange tale about the Bigfoot legend, takes place in the rugged terrain of coastal Oregon in 1905. All three of these award-winning early novels feature women who are strong and independent yet thoroughly human characters.In her latest, FALLING FROM HORSES, Gloss for the first time casts a male hero. It is 1938, deep in the harshest years of the Great Depression, and nineteen year-old Bud Frazer, weary of the meager rewards of the rural rodeo circuit, boards a bus for Hollywood, hoping to find a job as a stunt rider in the movies. Along the way he meets Lily Shaw, an ambitious young woman from a wealthy background in Seattle, who harbors dreams of being a script writer, and the two form an unlikely but easy friendship.Raised on a small ranch in south central Oregon, Bud grew up riding horses and herding cattle with his parents, so he knew the harsh realities of ranch life, but as a boy he was, nevertheless, enthralled by the B-westerns of the day, the shoot-em-ups of Tom Mix, Buck Jones, Tim McCoy, Hoot Gibson, Gene Autry and others. He even named one of his best horses Tony, after Mix's famous trick pony. But Bud is also fleeing lingering memories of a family tragedy, the details of which are revealed gradually through flashbacks.The story of Bud's hardscrabble Hollywood year is told in his own voice, but the backstory, that of his parents' early years together, employs an omniscient point-of-view, a rather schizophrenic method that works well for Gloss, whose real strength has always been in her characters, people who could easily have stepped out of your own family albums. Because, in a very real sense, Gloss writes "historical" fiction, smoothly and seamlessly inserting characters from her rich imagination into a particular place and time, whether it is Oregon in the twenties or Hollywood in the thirties.A horsewoman herself, Gloss's love of horses has often played a role in her fiction. THE JUMP-OFF CREEK opens with the narrator's journal entry on the purchase of a horse and mule. THE HEARTS OF HORSES focuses on the often-cruel methods for breaking horses, as well as the untold numbers of horses shipped overseas and lost in the Great War. This time Gloss zeroes in on the mistreatment and destruction of horses in the early movie industry, particularly in B-westerns, a popular and profitable subclass of films that proliferated from the twenties into the fifties and were often filmed on shoestring budgets in little more than a week. For a whole generation of kids like me who grew up on these exciting if formulaic oaters, FALLING FROM HORSES will be an eye-opener about how these cheapo films were made, and how the industry turned a blind eye to the numbers of horses injured and killed in the process. Bud's description of the aftermath of a reenacted Civil War battle, horses and men charging across a field rigged with hidden trip wires, illustrates this all too well -"Alongside me a horse lunged suddenly to its feet, one of its hind legs dangling, broken ... Shapes rose up through the yellow cloud or fell through it, and I could hear men calling out and horses squealing their pain ... I could still hear the thud of bodies striking the hard dry ground ..."And, in the aftermath of this violent and deadly staged battle which left dozens of horses dead or maimed beyond saving -"Around me, three or four men, wranglers, I think, were walking from horse to horse, and every time a gun popped I couldn't keep my shoulders from jerking. Horses were screaming, men moaning."Gloss's preoccupation with horses and how they are often misused or mistreated was evident too in THE HEARTS OF HORSES, in which she commented about the horses of World War I -"Of the four million horses sent over to that war, a million died outright, and of the three million still alive when the end was reached, only a handful made it home ... the three million horses who had survived were butchered for meat to feed all the hungry refugees ..."Both of Gloss's HORSES books bring to mind another book, one about British horses sent off to the Great War, Rosalind Belben's poignant and beautifully written novel, Our Horses in Egypt (2007). A few other fondly remembered books also sprang to mind while I was reading FALLING FROM HORSES - Darryl Ponicsan's Tom Mix died for your sins: A novel based on his life (1975), film scholar Roderick McGillis's delightfully readable critical study, He Was Some Kind of a Man: Masculinities in the B Western (Film and Media Studies) (2009), and James Horwitz's nostalgic look at movie cowboy heroes then and now, They Went Thataway (1976). Horwitz's book coined a term about the generations of children who flocked to B-western movie matinees for close to forty years. He called them the "front-row kids." I was one of those kids in the 1950s and so, I suspect, was Molly Gloss.It's been more than fifty years since Gloss and I were front-row kids, excitedly chomping our popcorn and candy as posses and stampeding cattle thundered across the screen above our upturned expectant faces. The magic is long gone, but not completely forgotten. With FALLING FROM HORSES Molly Gloss has created her own fictional front-row kid in Bud Frazer, a boy who grew up worshiping Tom Mix and Tim McCoy, then went to Hollywood hoping to ride in those westerns himself. Bud finds that work, but his story shows us the dark side of the film industry between the wars, a world where both men and animals were disposable parts to be ground up and spat out.But Bud's story is also one about growing up, about the meaning of home and family and finding one's own place in the world.FALLING FROM HORSES is an absorbing and informative story, one that fits so seamlessly into Gloss's oeuvre that her many fans will feel like they've come home after a long absence - to Oregon and the modern West. Highly recommended. (four and a half stars)- Tim Bazzett, author of the memoir, BOOKLOVER
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Excellent storytelling but difficult subject matter By Cheryl Stout Bud Frazer, 19 years old (son of Henry and Martha Frazer - Martha's story starts out in The Hearts of Horses) won some money in a rodeo up in Oregon and decided he belonged in the movies. So he catches a bus and heads to Hollywood. On the bus he meets Lily Shaw, a few years older than him and heading to Hollywood to become a screenwriter. Thus starts a lifelong friendship between the two.Bud does find his way into the movies as a stunt man on horses. FALLING FROM HORSES is him reminiscing about a few months of his life in 1938 - during the heyday of cowboy shoot-em-ups - although there are some additional details added about his life before and after Hollywood.This is a wonderful character study about a rancher's son and his life, not only on the ranch, but the ideals he carried forward from his ranching parents into the big world beyond.This was a difficult book to read because it takes place during a time of moviemaking where safeguards weren't in place to protect the animals in movies or the stuntmen. There are graphic portions of the story detailing horrific abuse of especially horses.I loved that the women in this tale are strong willed and roles are bent, allowing women to be more than "barefoot and pregnant" in this period piece. I especially liked Martha, Bud's mother, and am looking forward to reading her story next.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful. Honest, painful, beautiful, cruel, and kind By Jan Priddy I suppose my headline is a paradox, but it's only fair to explain the range of this wonderful new novel. Martha Lesson’s son, Bud, tells the story of his year in Hollywood cowboy movies in the 30s. We learn a lot about Bud Fraser while he’s learning a lot about the world and himself while falling from horses on movie sets. Bud’s narration alternates with chapters about his family, providing a necessary bridge from Gloss’s earlier novel to this story.In some ways Falling from Horses is a direct sequel to The Hearts of Horses, since it centers on the next generation of the Fraser family. But in many ways it is another sort of book altogether. I think I wrote on Facebook that I “loved” this book right off, which isn’t true. I liked it right away, but it was someplace after page 40 or so that I was completely in love. I cried on page 102 and at the ends of many chapters after that. It’s not a sad book, though it has sadness. And it’s not a book about cruelty or loss, though these are significant aspects of the novel. What It has left me with, and what remains in my mind after reading it, is an appreciation for the shape of entire lives. A satisfying book will choose the places to leave the reader in comfort—not a storybook “happy ending” but with a sense of purpose or insight or strength. Maybe because I am getting old myself, I appreciate thinking about the shape of a person’s lifetime. Gloss respects both the unavoidable sorrow none of us can escape in life and the ability of people to make something of themselves as a result of their experiences and the people they meet along the way.A young man leaves home after the loss of his sister, seeking, like his mother before him, to find heroism and adventure. What he finds is a life quite different than he imagined and people who challenge and inspire him. It is a story of ordinary heroism, the kind that matters in our lives, the sort of people who save us, especially from ourselves.The stunt riders and wranglers, and Lily, the screenwriter who most affects Bud, each emerge as fully rounded people. (I could read an entire novel about Lily, though most of her life is right here, told by Bud, who loved her like family, because that's what she was in his life.) There is tenderness and generosity. There is what feels like truth.This was a book I talked to while I read it, and these are people I feel I know like family. I should quote a line here, but people familiar with the writing of this author know the beauty and depth of her prose like cold, clear water. Readers who don’t know the work of Molly Gloss will probably surprise themselves by crying somewhere along the way.I read passages, which became entire chapters, aloud to my husband. Eventually I will read him the entire thing, as we did with Hearts of Horses. I think this might be my favorite by Gloss, and Gloss is among my favorite authors. She respects people and how people interact and love and care for one another. There is a paradox here: There is tragedy and cruelty in the novel, but the story itself is neither of those things, but another reality entirely, a world where I want to dwell. I feel like I understand people better after I have read one of Gloss's books. I feel like a better person. I see the world as a bigger and more meaningful place.NOTE I pre-ordered a copy of the novel in April, but I also won an Advance Reader copy on Goodreads. The novel was released in hardcover, 28 October 2014
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