The Jump-Off Creek. “ here is a damn good book. ”. — a.b. guthrie, jr. Lydia Bennett Sanderson is a hardship-honed widow homesteading in the backcountry of Oregon in Her neighbors are few: Tim and Blue are trying to make a go of it on their small hardscrabble ranch. Evelyn Walker is a young, lonely wife rearing her children in daunting isolation. MOLLY GLOSS is the best-selling author The Hearts of Horses, The Jump-Off Creek, winner of both the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award and the Oregon Book Award, The Dazzle of Day, winner of the PEN Center West Fiction Prize, and Wild Life, winner of the James Tiptree Jr. www.doorway.rus: The Jump-Off Creek. Molly Gloss. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, - Fiction - pages. 7 Reviews. "Set in the high mountain country of Oregon during the s, this first novel is a quiet, 4/5(7).
Author: Gloss, Molly. The Jump Off Creek. Title: The Jump Off Creek. Publication: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, First edition. Very good hardback in a very good. Molly Gloss is the author of The Dazzle of the Day, a New York Times Notable Book, and The Jump-Off Creek, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner www.doorway.ru teaches writing and literature of the American West at Portland State University and lives in Portland, Oregon. The Jump-Off Creek. " here is a damn good book. ". Lydia Bennett Sanderson is a hardship-honed widow homesteading in the backcountry of Oregon in Her neighbors are few: Tim and Blue are trying to make a go of it on their small hardscrabble ranch. Evelyn Walker is a young, lonely wife rearing her children in daunting isolation.
Acclaimed author Molly Gloss drew on pioneer diaries and old family stories to write this modern Western classic of a solitary woman’s frontier life. In the s, Lydia Sanderson leaves her old life behind and journey’s to Jump-Off Creek to make her way as a homesteader. Molly Gloss is the author of several novels including The Jump-Off Creek, The Dazzle of Day, Wild Life, The Hearts of Horses andFalling From Horses, as well as the story collection Unforeseen. She writes both realistic fiction and science fiction, and her work has received, among other honors, a PEN West Fiction Prize, an Oregon Book Award, two Pacific Northwest Booksellers Awards, the James Tiptree, Jr. Award, and a Whiting Writers Award. 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 s. “Every gritty line of the story rings true” (Seattle Times) as Molly Gloss delivers an authentic and moving portrait of the American West.
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