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Truth like the sun

Lynch, Jim more...

Format: Paperback
Library Classification: Adult Fiction
BIC Subjects: General & literary fiction
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication Date: 1/05/2012
Place of Publication: United Kingdom

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It is 1962, and the city of Seattle is about to be famous. Roger Morgan, an audacious young promoter, wants to pull off the ultimate coup de theatre: the World's Fair, rising out of the downtown fog to show the whole nation that the future has arrived. Roger dazzles everyone he meets, and is still a backstage power forty years later when, at the age of seventy, he makes a surprise bid for mayor. Helen Gulanos, a journalist new in town and keen to make her mark, sees her retrospectives on the 1962 Fair become front-page news as Roger's candidacy ignites the public imagination. She resolves to uncover the real Roger from behind the warm handshakes and glossy receptions - because even Seattle's golden boy must have something to hide. Truth Like the Sun is the most ambitious novel yet from the beloved author of The Highest Tide.

***** This novel is so very special. If you reach the last page without having laughed out loud, felt tears well up or at least once sat back in wonder at the extraordinary descriptions of the sea and its creatures, then you may, quite simply, be inhuman. Independent on Sunday on The Highest Tide Tender, sad and leavened with wit ... Lynch has written not just a liberal critique of the war on terror but also a moving, optimistic rebuttal of our paranoia that encourages us to imagine [...] the possibility of flying over everything that divides us. Washington Post on Border Songs Lynch observes like a journalist and writes like a poet. Seattle Times

Title: Truth like the sun
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Contributors: By (author) Jim Lynch

ISBN 13: 9781408831786
ISBN 10: 1408831783

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication Date: 1/05/2012
Place of Publication: London, United Kingdom
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BIC Subjects: General & literary fiction
NBS Classification: General & Literary Fiction

Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm