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Graphic the Valley
Peter Brown Hoffmeister
graphic /’grafik/ : giving a vivid picture
with explicit details or rocks having a
surface texture resembling cuneiform writing
Photo courtesy of
Jennie Hoffmeister
Fiction
5½ x 8½, 272 pages
North American English Rights
Hardcover:
ISBN: 9781440562037
UPC: 045079562035
$24.95 (CAN $25.99)
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Paperback:
ISBN: 9781440568930
UPC: 045079568938
$16.95 (CAN $17.99)
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Peter Brown Hoffmeister
PeterBrownHoffmeister​.com
Peter Brown Hoffmeister is the
author of Let Them Be Eaten By
Bears: A Fearless Guide to Taking
Young People Into the Outdoors (Perigee,
2013) and his memoir The
End Of Boys (Soft Skull, 2010), and is a writer for
The Huffington Post, Climbing Magazine, Rock and Ice
Magazine, and Gripped Magazine. His fiction collection,
Loss, won the 2006 Oregon Literary Arts
Fellowship, and his essay, “How to Break Up With
Your Climbing Partner”, won the Rock and Ice
National Bloggers’ Brawl. He knows Yosemite like
the back of his hand, and is a veteran camper, rock
climber, rafter, teacher, and guide.
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Tenaya has never left the 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, the Yosemite Valley becomes
the object of a graphic world where mythical strength, worldly
greed, love, lust, and epic destruction come together.
“Peter Brown Hoffmeister knows landscapes and bear scat and mountain lions and native
legends, the interiors of hitchhiker cars. He is also a man who is inventing language, whose
words bring to mind James Joyce. In Graphic the Valley, he gives us a possession story and
an anti-possession story, a tale about control. Tenaya—a young man without so much as a
birth certificate, a young man who has never left the valley and yet has no rights in it—must
find a way to save what he loves. And Hoffmeister makes us eager to find out.”
—Beth Kephart, National Book Award finalist
“In Peter Brown Hoffmeister’s Graphic the Valley, 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. 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 Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness
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“Author and climber Peter Brown Hoffmeister has woven history, adventure, family, and
tragedy into a gripping story set in one of America’s most legendary climbing epicenters.
Bold, colorful characters and stark prose carry the plot of this singular novel that accelerates
all the way to the last page. Hoffmeister has clearly spent his life studying Yosemite, climbing
its cracks, walking its trails, exploring its caves and learning its human history. A wonderful
read for anyone who’s spent time in the Valley—or needs another reason to visit someday.”
—Brendan Leonard, Contributing Editor, Climbing Magazine
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