Wild Life
by Molly Gloss
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Author: Molly GlossEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-09-17
ISBN: 0618131574
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Mariner Books
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Book Review: A rich and rewarding read
Summary: 4 Stars
Wild Life is the second Molly Gloss novel I've read, having started with her newest, The Hearts of Horses. This book was considerably denser in its nature and construction than Hearts, filled with allusions of such a variety that it was difficult at first to know what the author intended. But somehow these seemingly randomly coupled notes and interspersed quotes from folks like Samuel Butler, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Willa Cather and others all begin to coalesce and make sense in this jumbled and sometimes surrealistic tale of Charlotte Bridger Drummond's odyssey of being lost and finally found in the dark forested mountains of the Pacific Northwest in the nearly forgotten days of the "nineteen-oughts." Filled with finely drawn descriptions of how life was lived in the logged out rugged rivertowns of 1905, Gloss begins early to incorporate mysterious references to the race of giant man-like beings that were rumored even back then to exist in the dark forests and volcanic mountain regions. Think Sasquatch, Bigfoot, folks. But this is also a story of the darkness and complexity of the human heart, which incorporates tragedies both natural and man-made - timbering accidents, drownings, and even murder occur in this complex and meandering tale, which becomes perhaps just a teensy bit tedious in its second half, with its almost endless descriptions of the beauty of the Washington and Oregon rain forests where our heroine finds herself lost. The ending though redeems these long descriptive sections, and I will certainly continue to watch for other Molly Gloss titles, and already have her earlier novel, The Jump-Off Creek, in my shopping basket. - Tim Bazzett, author of ReedCityBoy
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