Ebook {Epub PDF} The Hearts of Horses by Molly Gloss

Molly Gloss is a fourth-generation Oregonian who lives in Portland. Her novel The Jump-Off Creek was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for American Fiction, and a winner of both the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award and the Oregon Book Award. In Molly was a recipient of a Whiting Writers Award. The Dazzle of Day was named a New York Times Notable Book and was awarded the PEN /5. Molly Gloss has way of painting word pictures that is tender, powerful and very moving. She is obviously well acquainted with horses and the way they were treated at the turn of the last century so her heroine's 'modern' ideas about breaking a horse gently come as a bit /5(). When Martha Lessen shows up at George Bliss’s doorstep looking for work breaking horses, George glimpses beneath her showy rodeo costume a shy young woman with a serious knowledge of horses, and he hires her on. Martha’s unusual, quiet way of breaking horses soon wins her additional work among several of the Bliss’s neighbors, and over the course of the winter, against the backdrop of a .

With the elegant sweetness of Plainsong and a pitch-perfect sense of western life reminiscent of Annie Dillard, The Hearts of Horses is a remarkable story about how people and animals make connections and touch each other's lives in the most unexpected and profound ways. © Molly Gloss (P) Tantor. Literary Fiction Historical Fiction. Molly Gloss has 40 books on Goodreads with ratings. Molly Gloss's most popular book is The Hearts of Horses. The Hearts of Horses by Molly Gloss starting at $ The Hearts of Horses has 8 available editions to buy at Half Price Books Marketplace.

Molly Gloss s affecting fourth novel turns the Western genre on its head with a woman as the mysterious stranger appearing on horseback, but Gloss is known for her independent, self-sufficient heroines. The Hearts of Horses is perhaps the most sentimental of all her works. Though the plot is more a collection of linked stories than a single, continuous narrative a stylistic technique that most reviewers commented on but did not criticize Gloss s simple, unadorned prose and stark portrayal of. Many of the chapters in Molly Gloss’s book The Hearts of Horses begin with “in those days.” Reading the book is a lot like listening to your grandma tell you a story about “back in those days.” Except for a few horse-related gaffes (basal hackamore, McClelland saddle, and “him” the mare), Gloss’s use of language is deft. When Martha Lessen shows up at George Bliss’s doorstep looking for work breaking horses, George glimpses beneath her showy rodeo costume a shy young woman with a serious knowledge of horses, and he hires her on. Martha’s unusual, quiet way of breaking horses soon wins her additional work among several of the Bliss’s neighbors, and over the course of the winter, against the backdrop of a horrifying modern war, and despite her best intentions of leading a solitary cowboy life, Martha.