Author: Molly Gloss
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547525362
Size: 19.31 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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The Jump Off Creek

by Molly Gloss, The Jump Off Creek Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download The Jump Off Creek book, A reading group favorite, The Jump-Off Creek is the unforgettable story of widowed homesteader Lydia Sanderson and her struggles to settle in the mountains of Oregon in the 1890s. “Every gritty line of the story rings true” (Seattle Times) as Molly Gloss delivers an authentic and moving portrait of the American West. “A powerful novel of struggle and loss” (Dallas Morning-News), The Jump-Off Creek gives readers an intimate look at the hardships of frontier life and a courageous woman determined to survive.

Author: Molly Gloss
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481498495
Size: 40.72 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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The Dazzle Of Day

by Molly Gloss, The Dazzle Of Day Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download The Dazzle Of Day book, Leaving a dilapidated Earth behind, Quakers across the globe pool funds and resources as they select colonists to send to a newly discovered planet to start life anew in this “miraculous fusion of…science fiction with unsparing realism and keen psychology” (Ursula K. Le Guin). In this “carefully conceived and deeply affecting” (The New York Times) novel, award-winning author Molly Gloss turns her attention to the frontiers of the future. A group of Quakers band together to abandon the ailing Earth, and travel to a settle a whole new world. The Dazzle of Day is their story. “The Dazzle of Day is a heartbreakingly good book...a rare dream of a book, passionate and lyric. The Dazzle of Day allows us to see our own world, our own present, more profoundly” (San Jose Mercury News).

Author: Molly Gloss
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1534403116
Size: 24.12 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Outside The Gates

by Molly Gloss, Outside The Gates Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Outside The Gates book, Villagers were always warned that monsters live outside the gates, but when a young boy named Vren is cast out, he finds a home in the world beyond, in Whiting Award winner Molly Gloss’s classic fantasy novel. Vren has always been told that the world beyond the gates of his village is one filled with monsters, giants, and other terrifying creatures. But when he confides with his family about his ability to talk to animals, he’s outcast to the very world he’s been taught to fear his whole life. He expects to die alone, lost and confused, but he finds something different altogether—refuge in a community of shadowed people with extraordinary powers. Thirty years later, Molly Gloss’s dystopian fantasy novel is just as timely, poignant, and stirring as ever, in a brand-new edition!

Author: White Kiser Dolores White Kiser
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440198187
Size: 69.44 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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The Jumping Off Place

by White Kiser Dolores White Kiser, The Jumping Off Place Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download The Jumping Off Place book, Maria lifted her hand to knock, but stopped when she heard a woman speaking. "Pastor, I met the most pathetic-looking girl yesterday," the voice said. "Where was that?" "Here at the church . . ." Maria felt her face burning with shame. She had fallen into disgrace, but not far enough to endure the term "pathetic." * * * "Did you come to the Ladies' Aid Meeting?" the woman asked. "Yeah. I came for aid," Maria answered, trying to control the bitterness in her voice. "I came for aid yesterday, but you asked me to eat and I did. I came again today to see if you needed a janitor to clean the church, but I know you don't, so I'll leave." * * * Maria Grant feels she at her wit's end-hungry, weary, and bedraggled-all for the love of a boy. Why did she leave her loving family to be near Orville? He didn't care one iota for her. She had sunk so low, all because of Orville.

Author: Molly Gloss
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544279298
Size: 74.94 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Falling From Horses

by Molly Gloss, Falling From Horses Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Falling From Horses book, In 1938, 19-year-old cowboy Bud Frazer escapes a family tragedy and travels to Hollywood to become a stunt rider in the movies. By the author of The Hearts of Horses. Online reader's guide available. 40,000 first printing.

Author: Molly Gloss
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 0330515020
Size: 48.60 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Hearts Of Horses

by Molly Gloss, The Hearts Of Horses Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download The Hearts Of Horses book, In the winter of 1917, a big-boned young woman shows up at George Bliss's doorstep. She's looking for a job breaking horses, and he hires her. Many of his regular hands are off fighting the war in Europe, and he glimpses beneath her showy rodeo garb, a shy but determined girl with a serious knowledge of horses. So begins the irresistable tale of Martha Lessen, a female horse whisperer trying to make a go of it in a man's world. Along the way, Martha helps a German family, ostracised by the community, to save their horses, gentles another horse for a dying man - a last gift to his young son - and gradually earns the respect and admiration of her new neighbours. With elegant sweetness and a pitch-perfect sense of western life, The Hearts of Horses is a remarkable a story about how people and animals make connections and touch each other's lives in the most unexpected and profound ways.

Author: Molly Gloss
Publisher: Gallery / Saga Press
ISBN: 1481498517
Size: 33.78 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Unforeseen

by Molly Gloss, Unforeseen Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Unforeseen book, From bestselling and award-winning author Molly Gloss comes her first complete collection of short stories—including two brand-new, original tales. Award-winning author Molly Gloss’s career retrospective collection of short stories comprises of two new stories. Unforeseen celebrates fourteen of her imaginative tales including her best-known story, “Lambing Season”. This collection includes: “Interlocking Pieces” “Joining” “Seaborne” “Wenonah’s Gift” “Personal Silence” “Lambing Season” “Downstream” “The Visited Man” “Unforeseen” “The Grinnell Method” “The Presley Brothers” “Dead Men Rise Up Never” And more!

Author: Kim Barnes
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806133676
Size: 23.40 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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Circle Of Women

by Kim Barnes, Circle Of Women Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Circle Of Women book, This striking array of stories, essays, and poems reflects women’s experiences in the American West. Though the tales they tell reflect a variety of viewpoints, these writers share the struggle against the overwhelming isolation brought on by gender and the physical environment. Contributors include:Christina Adam, Gretel Ehrlich, Anita Endrezze, Tess Gallagher, Molly Gloss, Pam Houston, Teresa Jordan, Cyra McFadden, Deirdre McNamer, Melanie Rae Thon, Marilynne Robinson, Annick Smith, Terry Tempest Williams, and Claire Davis

Author: Molly Gloss
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1534403108
Size: 52.39 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Wild Life

by Molly Gloss, Wild Life Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Wild Life book, In 1905, a cigar-smoking, feminist writer of popular adventure novels for women encounters Bigfoot in Molly Gloss’s best loved novel—­­“never has there been a more authentic, persuasive, or moving evocation of this elusive legend: a masterpiece” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Set among lava sinkholes and logging camps at the fringe of the Northwest frontier in the early 1900s, Wild Life is the story—both real and imagined—of the free-thinking, cigar-smoking, trouser-wearing Charlotte Bridger Drummond, who pens dime-store women’s adventure stories. One day, when a little girl gets lost in the woods, Charlotte anxiously joins the search. When she becomes lost in the dark and tangled woods, she finds herself face to face with a mysterious band of mountain giants…or more commonly known as Sasquatch. With great assurance and skill, Molly Gloss blends “heady cerebral satisfactions, gorgeous prose, and page-turning adventure” (Karen Joy Fowler, bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves), and puts a new spin on a classic piece of American folklore.

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Size: 45.36 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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Through Women S Eyes B Contemporary Women S Fiction About The Old West

by , Through Women S Eyes B Contemporary Women S Fiction About The Old West Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Through Women S Eyes B Contemporary Women S Fiction About The Old West book, The myth of the West is still very much alive in contemporary America. Lately, there has been a resurgence of new Western movies, TV series, and fiction. Until recently the West has been the exclusive domain of the quintessential masculine man. Women characters have featured only in the margins of the Western hero's tale. Contemporary Western fiction by women, however, offers new perspectives. Women's writing about the Old and New West introduces strong female protagonists and gives voice to characters that are muted or ignored by traditional Western literature and history. Western scholarship has largely been polarized by two approaches. First, the myth and symbol school of Turner, Smith, and followers celebrated American exceptionalism and rugged male individualism on the Western frontier. Second, the reaction against these theories draws attention to the West's legacy of racism, sexism and violence. The purpose of the present study is to collapse these theoretical fences and open a dialogue between conflicting theoretical positions and contemporay Western fiction. Molly Gloss's 1989 The Jump-Off Creek and Karen Joy Fowler's 1991 Sarah Canary selfcritically re-write the Old West. This study has attempted to explore the following questions: How can one re-write history in the context of a postmodern culture? How can "woman," the quintessential "Other" escape a modernist history (and thus avoid charges of essentialism) when she has not been in this history to begin with? In this study I analyze how these two contemporary feminist authors, Molly Gloss, and Karen Joy Fowler, face the dual challenge of writing themselves into a history that has traditionally excluded them, while at the same time deconstructing this very historical concept of the West. Fowler's and Gloss's use of diverse narrative strategies to upset a monolithic concept of history-- emphasizing the importance of multiple stories of the Old West-- is discussed in detail.