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CURRENT HAPPENINGS
May 16 -- Rainier Club, Seattle, lunch speaker, noon May 16 -- Island Books, Mercer Island, 7 pm May 17 -- Eagle Harbor Books, Bainbridge Island, with Knute Berger 7:30 pm Entire schedule on Events page _Grace_Lynch-210.jpg)
Truth Like the Sun, Jim Lynch's third novel, is fresh off the press from Knopf. Awards for Lynch's prior two novels, The Highest Tide and Border Songs, include the Indie Choice Honor Book Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award and the Washington State Book Award. For more, go to the bio page
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TRUTH LIKE THE SUN is now available
The Seattle Times called it "addictive" and the Portland Mercury called it "A great (regional) American novel." Amazon.com picked Truth Like the Sun as Book-of-the-Month for April. An excerpt of the novel appeared in this month's Seattle Met magazine. Jim will be touring with the novel in April and May. Set in Seattle during the 1962 World's Fair and also in 2001, Truth Like the Sun is described by its publisher, Knopf, as a "classic, hugely entertaining political novel that is a cat-and-mouse story of urban intrigue in Seattle over two starkly different eras." The Seattle Times called it a "must-read" and described it this way: "Jim Lynch's addictive new novel is a tale of two cities, both of them Seattle." Early praise from acclaimed authors: "Jim Lynch writes of the city where I live with great brio and persuasiveness. The joinery between the two halves of the narrative [1962 and 2001] is seamless. His handling of the light, just-between-friends style of routine civic graft in the 1960s seems dead-on, and his only-slightly alternative history of the city is at least as plausible as the official version. His people live and breathe on the page. I was engrossed throughout." -- Jonathan Raban, Seattle novelist and essayist, author of Waxwings. "Often funny and sometimes devastating but always to the point, TRUTH LIKE THE SUN reflects back on the 1962 World's Fair that put Seattle on the map. With the keen eye of the journalist he was and the nimbleness of the novelist he has become, Jim Lynch provides a thought-provoking fictional portrait of a city on the make and its somewhat tarnished tribe of civic strivers." --Ivan Doig, author of Whistling Season and House of Sky. "Truth Like the Sun, read after Jim Lynch's celebrated Highest Tide, confirms the tidal wave of his talent. Set again in the Pacific Northwest he has explored in such depth and variety, this is a city story all the way. Ambition, payoff, anxiety, payback, decadence and revenge dominate Seattle's story during the World's Fair of 1962 and thirty-nine years later, during the crest of the dot.com boom and not many weeks before the World Trade Center--the Other Coast's Space Needle--endured the mother of all collapses. Lynch's power of concentration depends on his respect for quiddities. His detailing of the moment-to-moment strategems of a reporter stalking a political big-foot, and of the big-foot's bravura evasions--the hunt proceeding throughout the storied and exotic environment of any right-minded person's favorite city--is thrilling." -- Geoffrey Wolff, Pulitzer finalist author of Duke of Deception |
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