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Author Event: Jim Lynch - Truth Like the Sun
05/02/2012 6:00 pm
Author Reading
Jim Lynch, author of
Truth Like the Sun
Wednesday, May 2nd
6pm at the Hood River County Library
Co-Sponsored by the Hood River County Library
Jim Lynch, author of
Truth Like the Sun
Wednesday, May 2nd
6pm at the Hood River County Library
Co-Sponsored by the Hood River County Library
Waucoma Bookstore and the Hood River County Library are hosting author Jim Lynch for a book reading at 6pm on Wednesday, May 2nd at the Hood River County Library. Lynch will be discussing his new book Truth Like the Sun. A classic and hugely entertaining political novel, Truth Like the Sun is the cat-and-mouse story of urban intrigue in Seattle both in 1962, when Seattle hosted the World's Fair, and in 2001, after its transformation in the Microsoft gold rush. Jim Lynch is the author of The Highest Tide and Border Songs.
About the Book
Larger than life, Roger Morgan was the mastermind behind the fair that made the city famous and is still a backstage power forty years later, when at the age of seventy he runs for mayor in hopes of restoring all of Seattle's former glory. Helen Gulanos, a reporter every bit as eager to make her mark, sees her assignment to investigate the events of 1962 become front-page news with Morgan's candidacy, and resolves to find out who he really is and where his power comes from: in 1962, a brash and excitable young promoter, greeting everyone from Elvis Presley to Lyndon Johnson, smooth-talking himself out of difficult situations, dipping in and out of secret card games; now, a beloved public figure with, it turns out, still-plentiful secrets. Wonderfully interwoven into this tale of the city of dreams are backroom deals, idealism and pragmatism, the best and worst ambitions, and all the aspirations that shape our communities and our lives.
About the AuthorJim Lynch lives with his wife and their daughter in Olympia, Washington. As a journalist, he has received the H. L. Mencken Award and a Livingston Award for Young Journalists, among other national honors. His first novel, The Highest Tide, won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, appeared on several bestseller lists, was adapted for the stage and has been published in eleven foreign markets.
Location:
- Street:
- Hood River County Library
- Additional:
- 502 State St.
- City:
- Hood River ,
- Province:
- Oregon
- Postal Code:
- 97031
- Country:
- United States
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