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Discovering the women of the West.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 30-JAN-05 		Format: Online - approximately 1121 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Discovering the women of the West.(Arts & Literature)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Karen McCowan The Register-Guard

Last year's "Readin' in the Rain" selection took local readers into an Oregon of the future as imagined by Ursula LeGuin in "The Lathe of Heaven." This year, "The Jump-Off Creek" transports them to the Oregon of 1895.

The Western-inspired novel by award-winning Portland writer Molly Gloss will be the focus of the Eugene-Springfield area's fourth annual effort to get local residents reading and discussing the same book. The event kicks off at 7 p.m. Tuesday with distribution of readers' guides and a discussion of regional literature at the University of Oregon Bookstore.

"The Jump-Off Creek," an unsentimental but compelling account of Oregon homesteader Lydia Sanderson, is described by Library Journal as "Not a standard Western, but a novel of the West notable for its accurate portrayal of life on a homestead and for the quality of writing that will make readers linger."

In an interview last week, Gloss discussed her writing life, this book and what inspired her to write it....

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