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Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Valley is a humorously visual story narrated by main character, writer/student, Mick O'Grady, as he ambles through his days in a sort of haze attempting to make sense of the numerous mysteries unraveling before him — from the odd-ball people he meets and associates with (a giant poet, drunken ex-linebacker, lost master journalist, wired meth-head, etc.), to the margin scribblings, receipts and photos he happens upon in used books by his favorite authors. O'Grady's literary inclinations result in curious over analyzation — a practically itemized account of everything around him, the ordinary included. At one point he notes that a vending machine in the lobby has no "Q" button on it. Not 26, but 25 letters. Lost in his wonderment after buying the drink, he forgets it on top of the machine...
With Valley, Mike Daily has created a style-crushing work of fiction, a true genre-bending boilermaker of prose and poetry. Review:"Mike Daily's sensibility is seriously skewed....Valley reads like a travelogue into the space between the ellipses, or into every dense and erratic mechanism and quirk (of which there are plenty, thank you very much) of its author's mind. It's an epic of fragmentation and disjointed thought processes, cutting in fits from genre to genre (screenplay, poetry, journalism, even college science lecture), with deliberately unrelenting commentary in the form of writing in the margins, footnotes, snapshots, bludgeoning headline-size type, and illustrations bleeding off the page. It should logically be a jarring, disjointed read. Miraculously it isn't. The reason is Daily's uncanny fluidity and rhythm." Brian Baltin, Blend Magazine (UK) Review:"Like Mike (or Mick) himself, [Valley] is not normal, but, it is indeed, well. Pick it up and it seems ordinary enough...flip through it, on the other hand, and you will do a double take. The mixing of styles from chapter to chapter make it look more like the hodgepodge of an anthology, but the narrative is continuous." Andy Jenkins, Lodown Magazine Review:"Quite often the form of the book jumps from genre to genre turning the author Mike Daily into a young Dr. Frankenstein, concocting his own literary monster — a pastiche of journal entries, newspaper clippings, poetry, and screenplay scenes....It is Daily's trade as an editor that allows him the insight of scrutinizing the mundane, turning a bland, everyday occurence into a profound revelation. By the book's end you're bound to realize that, yes, we are all crazy in our own special way." Greg Barbera, Warp Magazine Review:"You have a nice knack for the odd, the edgy, the absurd, the alienated, which indicates to me that you are a deeply troubled individual who should seek counseling, mostly in bars and strip joints. Yes, Mike, I feel your pain. I also feel the need to get up and take a leak." Gene Armao, in a letter to the author About the AuthorMike Daily edited and published the poetry anthology Stovepiper: Book One, which appeared in early 1995. He founded one of the most popular and influential freestyle bike riding teams on the East Coast in 1985, and for the past several years has worked as editor for international BMX magazines based in Southern California. Mr. Daily currently lives in the San Fernando Valley. Valley is his first book. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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