{"product_id":"reading-seattle-9780295983950","title":"Reading Seattle","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeattle, with its natural beauty and rough frontier history, has inspired writers from its earliest days. This anthology includes fiction, memoirs, histories, and journalism that define the city or use it as a setting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"What is here is bracing, informative, and strikingly varied..No matter what your tastes are, the anthology provides a fascinating sense of listening in on the mind of the city, humming away over the decades and coming up with myriad harmonies and discords distinctively its own.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * The Seattle Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Donahue and Trombold have compiled a volume that fills a book void, especially in recognizing the outpouring of writing about Seattle in the most recent decade..[They] have worked hard to include many of the city's finest writers over the past 70 years..[and] have also done an admirable job in showcasing many lesser-known but rising talents.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Seattle Post-Intelligencer *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword--Charles Johnson\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction--Peter Donahue\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 1: Coming into Focus (1930s-1980s)\u003cbr\u003e Northwest Gateway: The Story of the Port of Seattle--Archie Binns\u003cbr\u003e The Executioner Waits--Josephine Herbst\u003cbr\u003e Farthest Reach: Oregon and Washington--Nancy Wilson Ross\u003cbr\u003e Annie Jordan: A Novel of Seattle--Mary Brinker Post\u003cbr\u003e Long Old Road--Horace R. Cayton\u003cbr\u003e How I Grew--Mary McCarthy\u003cbr\u003e Anybody Can Do Anything--Betty MacDonald\u003cbr\u003e Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of Seattle--Murray Morgan\u003cbr\u003e Nisei Daughter--Monica Sone\u003cbr\u003e No-No Boy--John Okada\u003cbr\u003e Seattle, Past to Present--Roger Sale\u003cbr\u003e Digressions of a Native Son--Emmett Watson\u003cbr\u003e The Real West Marginal Way: A Poet's Autobiography--Richard Hugo\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 2: Many Voices (1980s-1990s)\u003cbr\u003e Still Life with Woodpecker--Tom Robbins\u003cbr\u003e The Rainy City--Earl W. Emerson\u003cbr\u003e Sister of the Road--Barbara Wilson\u003cbr\u003e Seattle's Son--David Guterson\u003cbr\u003e The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest--Timothy Egan\u003cbr\u003e Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America--Jonathan Raban\u003cbr\u003e Black Planet: Facing Race during an NBA Season--David Shields\u003cbr\u003e Emerald City: Third \u0026amp; Pike--Charlotte Watson Sherman\u003cbr\u003e Seattle and Vicinity--Colette Brooks\u003cbr\u003e A Good Man--Rebecca Brown \u003cbr\u003e Lying in Wait--J. A. Jance\u003cbr\u003e Rites of Passage: A Memoir of the Sixties in Seattle--Walt Crowley\u003cbr\u003e Street--Jack Cady\u003cbr\u003e Cold Snap--Thom Jones\u003cbr\u003e American Bullfrog--Charles D-Ambrosio\u003cbr\u003e Indian Killer--Sherman Alexie\u003cbr\u003e Blurred Vision: How the Eighties Began in One American Household--Natalia Rachel Singer\u003cbr\u003e Dark Blue Suit--Peter Bacho\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 3: Unto Itself (1990s-Early 2000s)\u003cbr\u003e A Fair Trade--Michael Byers\u003cbr\u003e Seattle Now: A Letter--Emily Baillargeon Russin\u003cbr\u003e Allan Stein--Matthew Stadler\u003cbr\u003e Sleep Dummy--Matt Briggs\u003cbr\u003e Breaking In--Paisley Rekdal\u003cbr\u003e Cruddy--Lynda Barry\u003cbr\u003e Green Lake--Edwin Weihe\u003cbr\u003e Never Mind Nirvana--Mark Lindquist\u003cbr\u003e Pearl's Secret: A Black Man's Search for His White Family--Neil Henry\u003cbr\u003e The Strangeness of Beauty--Lydia Minatoya\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue--John Trombold\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Washington Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400912642391,"sku":"9780295983950","price":25.32,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780295983950.jpg?v=1730471926","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reading-seattle-9780295983950","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}