Lucy Jane Bledsoe's Books
May.06.2010
From Publishers Weekly The raw emotions of three women in Bledsoe's fifth novel (after Biting the Apple) lead to often explosive interactions among scientists, artists, and other lost souls marooned in Antarctica. A crash-landing and the discovery of a long-frozen body bonds Mikala Wilbo, a composer, to Rosie Moore, a cook beginning her third season at McMurdo research...
Oct.15.2007
This is the story of an ex-Olympic sprinter – now a motivational writer – whose life is falling apart. Her kleptomania is intensifying. An ex girlfriend has begun stalking her. Her best friend/ex-husband is leaving her for good. Her manager is dropping her. And yet, for the first time, she starts telling the truth, living authentically.
Sep.15.2006
For Lucy Jane Bledsoe, wilderness had always been a source of peace. But during one disastrous solo trip in the wintry High Sierra, she came face to face with a crisis: the wilderness no longer felt like home. The Ice Cave recounts Bledsoe's wilderness journeys as she recovers her connection with the wild and discovers the meanings of fear and grace.
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"It's a slam dunk...she shoots, she scores...it's a home run...actually, the sports cliches aren't nearly enough praise for Bledsoe's elegant writing about women hard at play and ready to love. Nor do they do justice to the grace, humor and universality of her stories, smooth and absorbing tales about living, learning and growing up." -- Richard Labonte
"In an...
Lori Taylor is a top-notch bicycle mechanic and a smart woman with well-oiled charisma. And, she can't read. Her best friend Mickey is long on literacy but comes up short in matters of love. The two friends enter into a pact that leads to dangerous emotional territory. But as they negotiate the rough ride of personal growth, the mutual dream that drives them begins to unravel.......
"I like to tell Liz that I'm her dark side," says Christine, narrator of the novel. And it's true -- she and her sister, Liz, are indeed opposites. Christine, a doctor in San Francisco's Tenderloin district, is buried in her work and cannot connect meaningfully with any of the women with whom she falls in love. Liz, married to her high school sweetheart, Mark, has an...
About Lucy
Lucy Jane Bledsoe's new novel, THE BIG BANG SYMPHONY: a novel of Antarctica, was released in May 2010. For more information on the book, please see her website: www.lucyjanebledsoe.com.When Lucy is not writing, she's sea kayaking in Alaska, backpacking in...
Lucy’s Favorite Books
Anything by Alice Munro!
Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Ordinary Love & Good Will by Jane Smiley