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Title: Into the Valley
Author: Ruth Galm
Narrator: Eliza Foss
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-04-15
Publisher: Recorded Books
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
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 flees 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.
Members Reviews:
Transporting
The day disappeared while I read this yesterday on the beach. I was pulled into the desert and my mind went blank with the sun. Ms. Galm's writing is evocative and spare--her pacing is calm and steady and while B.'s mind is unfathomable, her character is sympathetic. Perfect beach read, given the setting (although I'm sure it's equally transporting in the dead of winter).
What a treat!
I loved the different pace and structure of the book. The detail of Ms. Galm's writing is impressive. There was a "darker" edge to it, yet it included social commentary and was pleasing to read. It was an engaging journey into the valley and kept me wondering what would happen to B. Hope she (the author) has more to come!
Into the Bin
Sorry, went right into the bin when I was done. The brighter spots of "Didion-esque" writing were not nearly enough to save a depressingly pointless story about a self-absorbed grifter. Still, it is her first novel, and I would definitely take a look at her next one.
A realist Picnic at Hanging Rock for our generation, ...
A realist Picnic at Hanging Rock for our generation, located firmly in the juncture where landscape meets culture meets the quirks and twists of the individual mind.
Weird
This is a well-written, weird book. Hard for me to explain exactly why I found it weird. That's how weird it is. As I read I would wonder what would happen next yet not really want to know. And yet I kept reading as the protagonist did one more stupid, strange, or otherwise weird thing after another.
This is not a bad book. As I said, it's well-written and tells a story in a way that shows talent. It's not a book I would encourage my friends to read because, well, guess! You got it. . .it's weird.
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Title: Into the Valley
Author: Ruth Galm
Narrator: Eliza Foss
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-04-15
Publisher: Recorded Books
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
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 flees 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.
Members Reviews:
Transporting
The day disappeared while I read this yesterday on the beach. I was pulled into the desert and my mind went blank with the sun. Ms. Galm's writing is evocative and spare--her pacing is calm and steady and while B.'s mind is unfathomable, her character is sympathetic. Perfect beach read, given the setting (although I'm sure it's equally transporting in the dead of winter).
What a treat!
I loved the different pace and structure of the book. The detail of Ms. Galm's writing is impressive. There was a "darker" edge to it, yet it included social commentary and was pleasing to read. It was an engaging journey into the valley and kept me wondering what would happen to B. Hope she (the author) has more to come!
Into the Bin
Sorry, went right into the bin when I was done. The brighter spots of "Didion-esque" writing were not nearly enough to save a depressingly pointless story about a self-absorbed grifter. Still, it is her first novel, and I would definitely take a look at her next one.
A realist Picnic at Hanging Rock for our generation, ...
A realist Picnic at Hanging Rock for our generation, located firmly in the juncture where landscape meets culture meets the quirks and twists of the individual mind.
Weird
This is a well-written, weird book. Hard for me to explain exactly why I found it weird. That's how weird it is. As I read I would wonder what would happen next yet not really want to know. And yet I kept reading as the protagonist did one more stupid, strange, or otherwise weird thing after another.
This is not a bad book. As I said, it's well-written and tells a story in a way that shows talent. It's not a book I would encourage my friends to read because, well, guess! You got it. . .it's weird.