Into the Valley [electronic resource]
Galm, Ruth2015
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Ruth Galm's spare, poetic debut novel, set in the American West of early Joan Didion, traces the drifting path of a young woman as she skirts the law and her own oppressive anxiety. Into the Valley opens on the day in July 1967 when B. decides to pass her first counterfeit check and flee San Francisco for the Central Valley. Caught between generations and unmarried at 30, B. doesn't understand the new counterculture youths. She likes the dresses and kid gloves of her mother's generation, but doesn't fit into that world either. B. is beset by a disintegrative anxiety she calls "the carsickness," and the only relief comes in handling illicit checks and driving endlessly through the valley. As she travels the bare, anonymous landscape, meeting an array of other characters—an alcoholic professor, a bohemian teenage girl, a criminal admirer—B.'s flight becomes that of a woman unraveling, a person lost between who she is and who she cannot yet be.
Main title:
Into the Valley [electronic resource] / Ruth Galm
Author:
Galm, Ruth, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Soho Press, 2015
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Biography/History:
Ruth Galm was born and raised in San José, California, earned an MFA from Columbia University, and has lived in San Francisco ever since. Her short fiction has appeared in Kenyon Review Online, Indiana Review, and Joyland, and she is a past resident of the Ucross Foundation. Into the Valley is her first novel.
ISBN:
9781616955106
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
327338
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| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | Libby, by Overdrive - eBook |