John Long Collection - Icarus Syndrome, Rogue's Atlas, Granite Mariner
Written by John Long
Release Date: November 28, 2023
About the Author
John Long was an original member of the legendary "Stonemasters," a core group of California climbers who lit the fuse on the modern adventure sports revolution. His incredible feats include the first one-day ascent of El Capitan in Yosemite Valley. Long describes himself as "a writer who just happens to get caught up in climbing and adventuring."
John Long has written over 40 books, with nearly three million copies in print. His literary short stories have been translated into many languages. He is the recipient of a National Book Award, the H. Adams Carter Literary Award from the American Alpine Club, and has won the Grand Prize at the Banff Film and Book Festival.
John Long has two beautiful daughters and two grandchildren. He currently resides in Venice Beach, California.
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ICARUS SYNDROME
Taking risks and exploring the unknown are as vital to human beings as our need for air, for growth, for affi rmation that we exist for something. These 19 stories reach deep into humanity’s compulsion for the rush of new experiences. But gently, because it’s not only records we might shatter. When does adventure turn to recklessness? What happens when we toe the edge above the void and face the big silence, where we might see God -- and die without warning? The Icarus Syndrome seeks to capture our push for more and hold it to the light, lofty and free, for as long as we dare tempt the downward slip. Both are possible; only one is assured.
ROGUE’S ATLAS
Long shapes a world that is rich and mesmeric, at times even baffling. A place where the blur between fiction and non-fiction is not a threat to our reality, but an affirmation that we have found its beginning. Long’s flash fiction is no phantom in a bottle. He reminds us that, bright as it may be, it is not the light but our own eyes that do the flickering. The light endures, as does Long’s wit and craft in this exercise on the ineffable.
GRANITE MARINER
When adventure/extreme sports achieved liftoff in the mid-1970s, John Long stories provided a kind of Technicolor diary of what it was like to shoot rapids with Punan tribesmen in Borneo, and scale the great granite monoliths in Yosemite. But most of all, Long’s award-winning stories brought into focus the DNA of the athlete’s inner experience. How the characters sounded and felt and lived – and sometimes died. In turn literary, noir, absurd, and cosmic, Long’s award-winning stories span nearly five decades, have been read by millions, and have been translated into many languages. The most classic and well-loved of these stories are now compiled into one volume.
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