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Truth Like the Sun Jim Lynch

Truth Like the Sun By Jim Lynch

Truth Like the Sun by Jim Lynch


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Summary

From the Richard & Judy-picked, internationally bestselling author of The Highest Tide comes a hugely entertaining political novel set in Seattle in the 1960s and the present day

Truth Like the Sun Summary

Truth Like the Sun by Jim Lynch

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. Roger dazzles everyone he meets, and is still a backstage power forty years later when, at the age of seventy, he makes a bid for mayor. Journalist Helen Gulanos is new in town and keen to make her mark, she resolves to uncover the real Roger from behind the glossy receptions - because even Seattle's golden boy must have something to hide. Woven into in this city of dreams is a cat-and-mouse-tale of back-room deals, idealism and pragmatism, the best and worst ambitions, and the aspirations that shape our communities and our lives. Truth Like the Sun is hard-nosed yet profoundly humane.

Truth Like the Sun Reviews

The parry and thrust between journalist and subject is expertly handled. The obvious cultural touch point for Lynch's novel is Citizen Kane, and as Helen searches for her Rosebud revelation, readers are confronted with the American obsession with ambition in all its tarnished glory -- Christian House * Independent on Sunday *
Jim Lynch's novel is a brilliantly disturbing dissection of political morality, where right and wrong are, like Seattle itself, blurred in a grey mist -- John Harding * Daily Mail *
The book alternates between eras with ease as its protagonists square off. The result crackles with energy * The Age *
Elvis makes a magnificently written cameo appearance in this novel, along with other American giants of his time including Ed Sullivan and John Fitzgerald Kennedy ... The scenes involving these two brilliant, determined characters as they lock horns over the truth of the past make breathtaking reading, and would make a great movie * Sydney Morning Herald, Pick of the Week *
Lynch observes like a journalist and writes like a poet * Seattle Times *
Enveloping and propulsive ... There is much marvelling to be done as Truth Like the Sun unfolds * New York Times *
Effortlessly readable but never predictable * Metro *

About Jim Lynch

Jim Lynch is the author of three novels, The Highest Tide, Border Songs and Truth Like The Sun. Before becoming a full-time novelist Lynch wrote for newspapers throughout the Northwest and beyond, winning the Livingston Award for Young Journalists, the George Polk Award and other national honors. He now lives in Olympia, Washington with his wife and daughter.

Additional information

GOR005214537
9781408830338
1408830337
Truth Like the Sun by Jim Lynch
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
20130411
272
N/A
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