Molly Gloss élabore des récits qui explorent des questions profondes de l'existence humaine et de notre connexion avec le monde naturel. Son écriture se caractérise par une prose lyrique, une perspicacité aiguë et une attention méticuleuse aux détails. L'auteure entrelace avec maestria la profondeur psychologique de ses personnages avec des descriptions poétiques du paysage, créant ainsi des expériences de lecture immersives. Sa prose explore les thèmes de l'identité, de la mémoire et de la recherche de sens dans un monde en mutation.
Set in a future where humanity escapes an over-polluted Earth, the narrative explores the lives of Quakers aboard a spaceship destined for a new world. As they navigate the challenges of interstellar travel, a unique society and culture develop among them. The story delves into themes of survival, community, and the human spirit, blending elements of literary and science fiction to create a thought-provoking tale about forging new beginnings in the cosmos.
From bestselling and award-winning author Molly Gloss comes her first complete collection of short stories—including three never-before-published original tales!Award-winning and critically acclaimed author Molly Gloss’s career retrospective collection, Unforseen, includes sixteen celebrated short stories that have never been published together before and three new stories.This collection includes: “Interlocking Pieces” “Joining” “Seaborne” “Wenonah’s Gift” “Personal Silence” “Lambing Season” “Downstream” “Verano” “The Visited Man” “Unforeseen” “The Grinnell Method” “The Presley Brothers” “Dead Men Rise Up Never” “Eating Ashes” “Personal Silence” “A Story” “Little Hills” “The Everlasting Humming of the Earth”
With an elegant sweetness and a pitch-perfect sense of western life reminiscent of Annie Dillard, Gloss's breakout novel is a remarkable story about the connections between people and animals and how they touch one another in the most unexpected and profound ways.
Set against the harsh backdrop of the Blue Mountains, the novel follows a widowed homesteader as she navigates the challenges of survival and resilience. Through unsentimental storytelling, it captures the essence of valor in everyday life, transforming ordinary experiences into a testament of heroism. Praised for its beautiful prose, this work serves as a poignant reminder of a significant yet often overlooked chapter in American history.
Villagers were always warned that monsters live outside the gates, but when a young boy named Vren is cast out, he finds a home in the world beyond, in Whiting Award winner Molly Gloss’s classic fantasy novel. Vren has always been told that the world beyond the gates of his village is one filled with monsters, giants, and other terrifying creatures. But when he confides with his family about his ability to talk to animals, he’s outcast to the very world he’s been taught to fear his whole life. He expects to die alone, lost and confused, but he finds something different altogether—refuge in a community of shadowed people with extraordinary powers. Thirty years later, Molly Gloss’s dystopian fantasy novel is just as timely, poignant, and stirring as ever, in a brand-new edition!
In 1905, a cigar-smoking, feminist writer of popular adventure novels for women encounters Bigfoot in Molly Gloss’s best loved novel—“never has there been a more authentic, persuasive, or moving evocation of this elusive legend: a masterpiece” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Set among lava sinkholes and logging camps at the fringe of the Northwest frontier in the early 1900s, Wild Life is the story—both real and imagined—of the free-thinking, cigar-smoking, trouser-wearing Charlotte Bridger Drummond, who pens dime-store women’s adventure stories. One day, when a little girl gets lost in the woods, Charlotte anxiously joins the search. When she becomes lost in the dark and tangled woods, she finds herself face to face with a mysterious band of mountain giants…or more commonly known as Sasquatch. With great assurance and skill, Molly Gloss blends “heady cerebral satisfactions, gorgeous prose, and page-turning adventure” (Karen Joy Fowler, bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves), and puts a new spin on a classic piece of American folklore.
