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Truth Like the Sun
Jim Lynch
Knopf
April 2012
On Sale: April 10, 2012
272 pages
ISBN: 030795868X
EAN: 9780307958686
Kindle: B005OCYQIQ
Hardcover / e-Book
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A classic and hugely entertaining political novel, 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. 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.
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