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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
November 2014
On Sale: October 28, 2014
Featuring: Bud Frazer
ISBN: 0544279298
EAN: 9780544279292
Kindle: B00HK3EZWE
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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
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, 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.
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