Range of Light
A Novel
Published on 19. August 2014
301 pages
978-1-4976-2148-0 (ISBN)
Description
Two old friends who have not seen each other for decades spend a week hiking through the stunning scenery of California's High Sierra
Twenty-five years ago, a group of five high schoolers trekked through the High Sierra. Now, two of them-lesbian Kath and straight Adele-come back to repeat their journey and renew their friendship. In chapters that alternate between the women's voices, they reveal their pasts, their thoughts, and their reactions both to the scenery and to each other. For Kath, the sublime topography of the Sierra is inspiring and invigorating. Adele is more trepidatious. Over the course of their journey up to High Country, old stories, tensions, dreams, and disappointments come to the surface.
A unique study of the complexity of the bonds between women, this transporting book, written with elegance and restraint, is among Miner's finest work.
Twenty-five years ago, a group of five high schoolers trekked through the High Sierra. Now, two of them-lesbian Kath and straight Adele-come back to repeat their journey and renew their friendship. In chapters that alternate between the women's voices, they reveal their pasts, their thoughts, and their reactions both to the scenery and to each other. For Kath, the sublime topography of the Sierra is inspiring and invigorating. Adele is more trepidatious. Over the course of their journey up to High Country, old stories, tensions, dreams, and disappointments come to the surface.
A unique study of the complexity of the bonds between women, this transporting book, written with elegance and restraint, is among Miner's finest work.
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Valerie Miner is the award-winning author of fourteen books, including novels, short fiction collections, and nonfiction. Miner's work has appeared inthe
Georgia Review,
TriQuarterly,
Salmagundi,
New Letters,
Ploughshares, the
Village Voice,
Prairie Schooner, the
Gettysburg Review, the
Times Literary Supplement, the
Women's Review of Books, the
Nation,and other journals. Her stories and essays have been published in more than sixty anthologies. A number of her pieces have been dramatized on BBC Radio 4. Her work has been translated into German, Turkish, Danish, Italian, Spanish, French, Swedish, and Dutch. She has won fellowships and awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, the Heinz Foundation, the Bogliasco Foundation, Fundación Valparaiso, the Australia Council Literary Arts Board, and numerous other organizations. She has received Fulbright fellowships to Tunisia, India, and Indonesia. Winner of a Distinguished Teaching Award, she has taught for over twenty-five years and is now a professor and artist in residence at Stanford University. She travels internationally giving readings, lectures, and workshops. Her website iswww.valerieminer.com.
