Lighting Out

Daniel Duane grew up in Berkeley, California. After obtaining his undergraduate degree from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, he quickly returned to the West Coast to climb, surf, and generally live life. Duane climbed actively in the Yosemite Valley from 1987 to 1992, got a Ph.D. in American Literature at UC-Santa Cruz, and currently lives in San Francisco with his two daughters and his wife, the writer Elizabeth Weil.

In a sort of nouveau Dharma Bums, drifting in and out of Bay Area counterculture and the High Sierra, young Californian Duane combines a climber's journal with a memoir of the year following his graduation from Cornell. -- Kirkus Associates "Kirkus Reviews" 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"