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On the granite faces of Yosemite, Duane's prose comes most alive . . . Lively and engaging. Kirkus Reviews The contrast between the slacker-climbing crowd and the New Age poseurs is enhanced by a wonderfully deadpan writing style that is rarely too technical for those unfamiliar with the sport. Highly recommended. Library Journal [Duane] explores with fine irony and rare depth his awakening into manhood, love, and conquest -- Isabel Allende *Reissue of a well-regarded coming-of-age memoir about Yosemite and the West Coast in the 1990s *With a new afterword by the author Lighting Out by Daniel Duane is a coming-of-age memoir, first and foremost. But it s also about the Yosemite climbing lifestyle in the early 1990s and the author s effort to immerse himself in that dirtbag world, while figuring out what to do with his life. It beautifully evokes a specific time and place, as well as captures that post-college searching and desire for adventure and romance that resonates for so many. From the Grateful Dead to an awkward tumble into a relationship, and from California surf towns to the sheer wall of El Cap, Duane s story meanders through loosely linked events and observations that, taken together, convey a tangible sense of freedom and the search for fulfillment. Duane climbed actively in the Yosemite Valley from 1987 to 1992, then went on to get a Ph.D. in American Literature at UC Santa Cruz. Lighting Out was his first book, published two years before his seminal cult-favorite, Caught Inside: A Surfer s Year on the Calfiornia Coast. His most recent book is How to Cook Like a Man: A Memoir of Cookbook Obsession. Mountaineers Books is proud to reissue Lighting Out, in which Duane also includes a new afterword describing his ultimately successful climb of El Cap, and introducing his two young daughters to Yosemite s signature big wall.

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This captivating debut offers a glimpse at the 'Generation X' counterculture on the West Coast. job at an upscale mountaineering shop. -- Tim Markus Library Journal

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