Synopsis
After realizing that he and his friend Mo will never reach the peak of El Capitan, Ray Connelly's world further collapses when Mo accuses him of stealing some unwritten stories, and the conflict is dramatically resolved on the same mountain where it began. A first novel. Tour.
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"San Francisco Chronicle" Duane raids elements of the road novel, the buddy movie, coming-of-age and rite-of-passage narratives, reformulating them all. His unmistakably Northern California style combines pop culture savvy and eco-celebration, while his soft-shouldered urbanity manages to reinvest irony with genuine sentiment.
About the Author
Daniel Duane is the author of Lighting Out: A Vision of California and the Mountains and Caught Inside: A Surfer's Year on the California Coast. He has written for The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Men's Journal, Outside, GQ, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, and The Village Voice. He lives in San Francisco.
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Hardcover. First Ed, so stated. First Ed, so stated. Near Fine in Fine DJ: Book shows only minute indications of use: three superficial dents at the bottom edge of the boards; else flawless; binding square and secure; text clean. DJ price unclipped; mylar-protected. Virtually 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 230pp. Hardback with DJ. This is a fresh, funny first novel. "Looking For Mo" has garnered rave reviews from critics and readers alike, echoing the success of Daniel Duane's previous book, "Caught Inside." This time Duane combines the thrill of adventure writing "a la" Jon Krakauer with a sly satire of pop culture comparable to Douglas Coupland's "Generation X," and folds them into a wry and memorable story of one man's search for truth on the sheer rock face of Yosemite's El Capitan. Raymond Connelly, a San Francisco would-be writer, is still living uneasily with his failure to climb "The Captain" with his childhood friend and alter ego, Mo Lehrman. As he circumnavigates his way through life on the edges of West Coast counterculture, trying to live like Mo's stories, which are more real than life itself, Ray lifts the best of those tales for his own book. But when he is accused of plagiarism, Ray suffers an attack of conscience, and sets off in search of Mo -- to explain, and to make good by finishing their shared climb. From the San Francisco performance-art world to a psychedelic vision at a Grateful Dead show, Ray's quest for self-discovery is both hilarious and emotionally fraught, climaxing in two men's true-to-life climb up the sheer slope of "The Captain." "Looking For Mo" is a moving, resonant exploration of the tenuous foundations of friendship and an investigation of the explosive power of storytelling. Seller Inventory # 39027
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