Valley (1998) Novel + Digital Download

from Mike Daily

Mike Daily's first novel, Valley (1998, Bend Press).

Drifting through his days in a haze while attempting to make sense of mysteries unraveling before him--from the oddball people he meets in Affordable Student Housing (ASH) to the margin scribblings, receipts, and photos he happens upon in used books by his favorite authors—BMX magazine editor and college student Mick O'Grady reflects on life, love, and literature in the San Fernando Valley.

Softcover (Matte finish), 208 pages, First Edition, New Unread Condition.

Signed copy with vintage enclosures.*

Also signed by Bend Press designer and publisher, Andy Jenkins.

Ships Priority Mail within U.S.

Ships First Class International to Canada and Foreign.

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* Marginalia.

"Mike Daily packs so many stylistic smash cuts into Valley, MTV dulls by comparison."

--RAY GUN MAGAZINE

"[Valley is] 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

"American readers might not readily recognize the reference but Valley immediately brought to mind Nick Hornby's High Fidelity. While Hornby is a music obsessive Daily is books crazy. He knows his Beat and literary history and his mind is a fascinating archive."

--Kevin Ring, Beat Scene Magazine

Includes unlimited streaming of the VALLEY AUDIO PROJECT via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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Mike Daily is an author, journalist, zinemaker, and co-founder of the Plywood Hoods Freestyle BMX Trick Team. Daily's new novel, Moon Babes of Bicycle City (4/3/20, "Second Printing Forever") is available now from Amazon.