Jim Lynch – Truth Like the Sun
Jim Lynch
Truth Like the Sun
Friday, May 11th, 7 PM
Wine on the Waterfront
As Seattle celebrates the 50th anniversary of the 1962 World’s Fair, Jim Lynch has produced a classic and hugely entertaining political novel, the cat-and-mouse story of urban intrigue in 1962, when Seattle hosted the World’s Fair, and in 2001, after its transformation in the Microsoft gold rush.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 Seattle looking to make its mark on the world stage in 1962, and figuring its place in the world today is a brilliant exploration of the politics of culture and the culture of politics.Jim Lynch is the author of the celebrated novel The Highest Tide. He received the H. L. Mencken Award and a Livingston Award for Young Journalists, among other national honors. His most recent novel, Border Songs, won the Washington State Book Award and is currently being adapted for television.Truth Like the Sun is published by Knopf Publishing Group.
- Street:
- 115 East Railroad Avenue
- Additional:
- Wine on the Waterfront
- City:
- Port Angeles ,
- Province:
- Washington
- Postal Code:
- 98362
- Country:
- United States
