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Reading Seattle : the city in prose / edited by Peter Donahue and John Trombold.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American prose literature--Washington (State)--Seattle.
- American prose literature.
- Seattle (Wash.)--Literary collections.
- Seattle (Wash.).
- Seattle (Wash.)--Fiction.
- Washington (State)--Seattle.
- Genre:
- Literature.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 320 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2004]
- Contents:
- Part 1. Coming Into Focus (1930s-1980s)
- Northwest Gateway: The Story of the Port of Seattle / Archie Binns 21
- The Executioner Waits / Josephine Herbst 31
- Farthest Reach: Oregon and Washington / Nancy Wilson Ross 40
- Annie Jordan: A Novel of Seattle / Mary Brinker Post 46
- Long Old Road / Horace R. Cayton 49
- How I Grew / Mary McCarthy 55
- Anybody Can Do Anything / Betty MacDonald 59
- Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of Seattle / Murray Morgan 65
- Nisei Daughter / Monica Sone 73
- No-No Boy / John Okada 80
- Seattle, Past to Present / Roger Sale 86
- Digressions of a Native Son / Emmett Watson 91
- The Real West Marginal Way: A Poet's Autobiography / Richard Hugo 96
- Part 2. Many Voices (1980s-1990s)
- Still Life with Woodpecker / Tom Robbins 109
- The Rainy City / Earl W. Emerson 115
- Sisters of the Road / Barbara Wilson 118
- Seattle's Son / David Guterson 122
- The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest / Timothy Egan 127
- Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America / Jonathan Raban 132
- Black Planet: Facing Race during an NBA Season / David Shields 141
- Emerald City: Third & Pike / Charlotte Watson Sherman 147
- Seattle and Vicinity / Colette Brooks 152
- A Good Man / Rebecca Brown 159
- Lying in Wait / J.A. Jance 166
- Rites of Passage: A Memoir of the Sixties in Seattle / Walt Crowley 174
- Street / Jack Cady 182
- Cold Snap / Thom Jones 185
- American Bullfrog / Charles D'Ambrosio 199
- Indian Killer / Sherman Alexie 204
- Blurred Vision: How the Eighties Began in One American Household / Natalia Rachel Singer 211
- Dark Blue Suit / Peter Bacho 221
- Part 3. Unto Itself (1990s-Early 2000s)
- A Fair Trade / Michael Byers 231
- Seattle Now: A Letter / Emily Baillargeon Russin 241
- Allan Stein / Matthew Stadler 251
- Sleep Dummy / Matt Briggs 256
- Breaking In / Paisley Rekdal 264
- Cruddy / Lynda Barry 271
- Green Lake / Edwin Weihe 275
- Never Mind Nirvana / Mark Lindquist 283
- Pearl's Secret: A Black Man's Search for His White Family / Neil Henry 292
- The Strangeness of Beauty / Lydia Minatoya 299.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-320).
- ISBN:
- 0295983957
- OCLC:
- 53939193
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