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Looking For Mo

by Daniel Duane

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A "fresh, funny first novel" (San Francisco Chronicle), LOOKING FOR MO has garnered rave reviews from critics and readers alike, echoing the success of Daniel Duane's previous book, Caught Inside. This time Duane combines the thrill of adventure writing a la Jon Krakauer with a sly satire of pop culture comparable to Douglas Coupland's Generation X, and folds them into a wry and memorable story of one man's search for truth on the sheer rock face of Yosemite's El Capitan.Raymond Connelly, a San Francisco would-be writer, is still living uneasily with his failure to climb "The Captain" with his childhood friend and alter ego, Mo Lehrman. As he circumnavigates his way through life on the edges of West Coast counterculture, trying to live like Mo's stories, which are more real than life itself, Ray lifts the best of those tales for his own book. But when he is accused of plagiarism, Ray suffers an attack of conscience, and sets off in search of Mo -- to explain, and to make good by finishing their shared climb.From the San Francisco performance-art world to a psychedelic vision at a Grateful Dead show, Ray's quest for self-discovery is both hilarious and emotionally fraught, climaxing in two men's true-to-life climb up the sheer slope of "The Captain". LOOKING FOR MO is a moving, resonant exploration of the tenuous foundations of friendship and an investigation of the explosive power of storytelling.… (more)
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Ray Connelly failed in his attempt on El Capitan, Yosemite's forbidding sheer rock face, letting down his friend Mo. He is in even more trouble with his friend having "borrowed" the many stories Mo has told him, written a book of them and their climbing adventures together and tried to get it published. Mo is not happy.

Can he repair the rift in their friendship, what hopes of his future as a writer if he must abandon his cherished book, and has he finally found love in the form of Fiona, and how much of this is he prepared to sacrifice in order to make things right with Mo?

Looking For Mo provides and insight into the lives of those young men who pursue the thrills and dangers of surfing and climbing and live life according to their own values. When Ray finally tracks down Mo and they make another attempt on El Capitan we experience something of the thrills of the climb ourselves.

This is a well written and engaging novel, Ray has a very high regard for his friend Mo, and when we finally meet Mo it is easy to see why. While the conclusion is positive it gives little clue as to where Ray's life will go from there, I'd like to have known something of what the future now holds for him. ( )
  presto | Apr 22, 2012 |
rock climbing 20-something battles angst

9.99 ( )
  aletheia21 | Feb 9, 2007 |
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A "fresh, funny first novel" (San Francisco Chronicle), LOOKING FOR MO has garnered rave reviews from critics and readers alike, echoing the success of Daniel Duane's previous book, Caught Inside. This time Duane combines the thrill of adventure writing a la Jon Krakauer with a sly satire of pop culture comparable to Douglas Coupland's Generation X, and folds them into a wry and memorable story of one man's search for truth on the sheer rock face of Yosemite's El Capitan.Raymond Connelly, a San Francisco would-be writer, is still living uneasily with his failure to climb "The Captain" with his childhood friend and alter ego, Mo Lehrman. As he circumnavigates his way through life on the edges of West Coast counterculture, trying to live like Mo's stories, which are more real than life itself, Ray lifts the best of those tales for his own book. But when he is accused of plagiarism, Ray suffers an attack of conscience, and sets off in search of Mo -- to explain, and to make good by finishing their shared climb.From the San Francisco performance-art world to a psychedelic vision at a Grateful Dead show, Ray's quest for self-discovery is both hilarious and emotionally fraught, climaxing in two men's true-to-life climb up the sheer slope of "The Captain". LOOKING FOR MO is a moving, resonant exploration of the tenuous foundations of friendship and an investigation of the explosive power of storytelling.

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