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In 1938, 19-year-old cowboy Bud Frazer pieces his places on learning to be a stunt rider in the movies. Fantasizing about massaging shoulders with the fantastic screen cowboys of his children, he leaves his home in Echol Creek, Oregon, and heads for Hollywood. Around the long bus trip south, Bud fits a young girl who also harbors dreams of which makes it in the movies, though much less a starlet but as a writer, a real writer. Lily Shaw is daring and outspoken and self-confident in ways completely out of proportion with her small body and bookish looks. Both proceed to strike up an improbable kinship that will carry them through their tumultuous times in Hollywood - and, as it happens, for the others of their lives. Acutely detected and impeccably traditional, Falling From Horses graphs what turns out to be a glittering 12 months in the movie business, seen through the wide eyes and lofty dreams of two different people seeking to make their symbol on the world, or at least to make their way in it. As she does so memorably in her prior novel, the best-selling The Hearts of Horses, Molly Gloss weaves a remarkable tale of humans and horses, trust and heartbreak. Molly Gloss is also the author of The Jump-Off Creek, successful of both Pacific Northwest Booksellers Honor and the Oregon Booklet Honor, The Dazzle of Day, a New York Times Notable Book and champion of the Pencil Center Western Fiction Award, and Outdoors Life, champion of the James Tiptree Jr. Honor.
