Into the Valley

Ruth Galm

ISBN 10: 1616955090 / ISBN 13: 9781616955090

Published by Soho Press, 2015

About this Item

Signed by the author on the title page. First Edition, first printing (with full number line). Front bottom corner lightly bumped. Dust jacket has very slight edge wear. DJ in clear archival sleeve. 256, [9] pp. 8.5 x 5.75 inches.

Seller Inventory # 010465

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Into the Valley
• Publisher: Soho Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1616955090
• ISBN 13: 9781616955090
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Into The Valley opens on the day in July 1967 when B. decides to pass her first counterfeit cheque and flee San Francisco. B. is caught between generations - unmarried at 30, she doesn't understand the new counterculture youths, but never fit into her mother's world either. The only relief comes in handling the illicit checks and endless driving in the valley. As she travels the bare, anonymous landscape, meeting an array of other characters - an alcoholic professor, a hippie, a criminal admirer - B.'s flight becomes that of a woman unravelling.

About the Author

Ruth Galm’s writing has appeared in the Kenyon Review Online, Indiana Review, and Joyland. Her story “New Mexico, 1957” received special mention in Best American Short Stories 2016. Galm holds an MFA from Columbia University and has been a resident of the Ucross Foundation. She was born and raised in San José, California, spent time in New York City and Boston, and now lives in San Francisco. Into the Valley is her first novel.