Falling from Horses

De: Molly Gloss

Narrado por: David Aaron Baker

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 best-selling 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.

©2014 Molly Gloss (P)2014 Recorded Books

A really good story.

I happen to be partial to the genre of cowboys and horses and ranch life with hard work. This book has all of that and the glossed over lack of reality of Hollywood. This is not a thriller twist intern mystery. This is a really well told good story. I loved it and I listen to many more like it.

Slow horses

Lovely prose and an interesting and informative backdrop ( small family ranching and Hollywood stunt riding in the 1930s) but a very slow paced narrative. Excellent narration !

Good

Engaging. Gut wrenching if you’re a lover of horses. Thoughtfully put together and emotionally true to life.