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Book choice: A Western with feeling.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 30-JAN-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Book choice: A Western with feeling.(Columns)(Column)

Article Excerpt
Byline: GUEST VIEWPOINT By Sandy Jensen For The Register-Guard

Some mornings I wake up with the sound of hoofbeats fading into the distance, and I know I've been dreaming about some wild horse of a book.

Right now, it's Molly Gloss' "The Jump-Off Creek." I've just reread it for Readin' in the Rain, Eugene's annual one-book festival in February - and like a herd of wild horses, it keeps drumming its Western rhythms in my ears.

Most of your garden-variety Westerns feature a lone cowboy, but Gloss plays with mirrors. This is the story of an American heroine, Lydia Bennett Sanderson, who comes to Oregon from Pennsylvania in 1895 to start a new life, although she starts out as an unlikely candidate for the status of "heroine."

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