{"product_id":"9781440568930","title":"Graphic the Valley","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eGraphic the Valley\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Peter Brown Hoffmeister\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTenaya has never left Yosemite Valley. He was born in a car by the Merced River, and grew up in a hidden camp with his parents, surviving on fish, acorns, and unfinished food thrown away by the park's millions of tourists. But despite its splendor, Tenaya's Yosemite is a visceral place of opposites, at once beautiful, dangerous, and violent. When he meets Lucy, a young woman from the south side of the park, Tenaya must choose between this new relationship and the Valley, terrorism and legend, the sacred versus the material. In this modern retelling of Samson and Delilah, \u003ci\u003eGraphic the Valley\u003c\/i\u003e explores mythical strength, worldly greed, love, lust, and epic destruction. Set entirely in the majestic Yosemite Valley, Hoffmeister recalls Edward Abbey's vivid sense of place and urgent call for preservation of one of the world's most spectacular sites.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\"A vigorously original retelling of the Samson and Delilah story set in Yosemite. Mr. Hoffmeister, an experienced outdoorsman and magazine writer, marvelously harnesses the valley's natural wonders... The avenging destruction wrought by both Tenaya and the natural world is captured with beauty and aplomb. Mr. Hoffmeister brings a new found sense of urgency to one of the Bible's oldest and strangest tales.\" --\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This fascinating novel is both an outsider's coming-of-age story . . . and a deeper meditation on the beauty of the wild world . . . the images, sometimes mythic . . . are unforgettable . . . Passionately conceived, arrestingly original, this will be life changing for some readers.\" --\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e starred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In Peter Brown Hoffmeister's \u003ci\u003eGraphic the Valley\u003c\/i\u003e, you'll enter the life of Yosemite's 'other' visitors, the nomadic climbers and rootless drifters, fed by dreams, a wish to escape, or a native's desire to never leave his ancestral home. Hoffmeister's intimate knowledge of this place, this way of life, pulls you in, ensnares you in the struggle to protect Yosemite from itself. But, more than that, you'll live with these people, feel the exhilaration of new love, the crushing pain of its loss, become a young man searching for who he is, all amid the valleys, domes and rivers of one of the world's most beautiful places.\" --Pete Fromm, author of \u003ci\u003eIndian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The narrator's Yosemite is a sacred place . . . captured in Hoffmeister's lean, immaculate, and devastating prose.\" --River Donaghey, \u003ci\u003eVICE Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e Contributor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Peter Hoffmeister is as ambitious as he is original. \u003ci\u003eGraphic the Valley\u003c\/i\u003e is many things at once: an ode to a place, a romance, a family drama, and a cautionary tale. From page one, it will surprise you. By the end, it will leave you surprisingly affected.\" --Miriam Gershow, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Local News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Part \u003ci\u003eThe Jungle Book\u003c\/i\u003e, part \u003ci\u003eThe Monkey Wrench Gang\u003c\/i\u003e . . . \u003ci\u003eGraphic the Valley\u003c\/i\u003e is worth a visit. A . . . compelling narrative.\" --Willamette Week\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An excellent coming-of-age debut novel. [Hoffmeister] skillfully interweaves the story of modern-day life in Yosemite with the the area's turbulent and tragic history . . . The book's sense of place is strong, capturing Yosemite's wild beauty. Both adult and mature young adult readers and lovers of literary ecofiction will enjoy this fast-paced love story.\" --\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cb\u003eStarred Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With refreshingly fundamental first person narration and unusual character development . . . each page of this novel illuminates its reader's imagination with both tenacity and innocence.\" --\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The book draws together rock climbing, an attempt to correct the wrongs done to Native American history in Yosemite National Park, a Samson and Delilah tale, eco-sabotage and the tragedy of what man does to nature. Hoffmeister's characters are complex and . . . reflect the duality and the power nature holds over man.\" --Eugene Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This epic-style tale contains historic renderings of the Mariposa Battalion's invasion in 1851, the flood of 1997, the Lodestar crash and climber involvement, and old Chief Tenaya's death over a bad horse deal.\" --Rock and Ice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eGraphic the Valley\u003c\/i\u003e, the debut novel by Eugene’s Peter Brown Hoffmeister, is as bold as its biblical inspiration. Hoffmeister’s ability to convey the small and vital moments of this personal trial that leaves a grand impression.” --The Register-Guard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs featured on NPR.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781440568930\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Gallery Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40589108871374,"sku":"9781440568930","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/O_df92aaec-a479-42e8-9974-8fd30fd2349a.jpg?v=1637711939","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781440568930","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}