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WorksPomegranate Seed
“Amanda Cockrell has written a zinger of a novel with serious import—here’s the real human tragedy of the Hollywood blacklist with verve and style. Cockrell’s unerring sense of time and place allows her to present California without cliche, then and now, as she shifts between past and present time. A mesmerizing read.” -- Lee Smith “Take an authentic and evocative summoning up of more than half a century of Hollywood history, from the silents to the hard edges of here and now; add on a lively and diverse cast of characters, credible people as surprising and memorable as the pilgrims in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales; mix well with a suspenseful, page-turning story; then season with humor and with style, and you have the enchanting formula for Pomegranate Seed. Amanda Cockrell is a master magician and this novel is a pleasure to read from first to last. See for yourself.” -- George Garrett The Legions of the Mist
"Amanda Cockrell's first novel is more than an auspicious debut; it is an extraordinary achivement. She tells us an abundantly various and exciting tale, based solidly on assimilated historical fact and yet richly innovative, imaginatively speculative wherever it must be so. Ms. Cockrell has chosen, and been chosen by, a haunting era just on the edges of present memory, a place where myths begin. And she has made the most of it." -- George Garrett When the Horses Came
Volume 1 in The Horse Catchers trilogy. "Amanda Cockrell's books are the most satisfying stories about prehistoric people that I have ever read. Like Patrick O'Brien's sea stories, they are funny, humane novels of character and manners, as well as excellent adventures" -- Ursula K. LeGuin Children of the Horse
Volume 2 in The Horse Catchers trilogy. Blue Jay and his sister Dances, descendants of the now-legendary Horse Bringers, travel to the Cities-in-the-West in search of more horses. The Rain Child
Volume 3 in The Horse Catchers trilogy. Rain Child, in search of a stray horse, finds instead a magical treasure. The iron pot is the first of four enchanted gifts that Coyote will use to lure Rain Child and her horses north for his own purposes. Daughter of the Sky
Volume 1 in The Deer Dancers trilogy. "A work of mythic beauty" -- Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear “In our current political climate, what concerns could be more contemporary than these: What is the role of the artist? What good does any individual’s art contribute to the people? What toll does making art exact on the individual? Which changes are the good changes? “Believe me, she knows how to tell a good story. But lots of writers know how to tell a good story. Knowing, too, how to give texture and meaning to characters as removed in time as these; and knowing how to examine the spiritual world by depicting the physical one—these are rare gifts.” -- Monty S. Leitch, Roanoke Times Wind Caller's Children
Volume 2 in The Deer Dancers trilogy. "A novel of magical realism" -- Ursula K. LeGuin The Long Walk
Volume 3 in The Deer Dancers trilogy. Others' Child and Night Hawk roam along the trade trails to the shore of the Endless Water. Shadow Castle
By Marian Cockrell Now back in print, in an expanded edition with the original illustrations and cover art, and six new chapters. |
