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TRUTH LIKE THE SUN

Jim Lynch

A classic and hugely entertaining political novel, the cat-and-mouse story of urban intrigue in Seattle both in 1962, when it 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 its former glory. Helen Gulanos, a reporter every bit as eager to make her mark, sees her assignment on the events of 1962 become front-page news with his 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 in this city of dreams are back-room deals, idealism and pragmatism, the best and worst ambitions, and all the aspirations that shape our communities and our lives. Jim Lynch is the author of "The Highest Tide", which won the 2006 Pacific Northwest Bookseller Award and was an international bestselling novel; and "Border Songs" which won the Washington State Book Award for Fiction, was adapted to the stage and is being produced for televi- sion. Lynch is a recipient of the Livingston Young Journalist Award. His work has been published in 9 languages.

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Book Published 2012-04-01 by Knopf

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A briskly paced novel that gives us an insider’s view into both the politics of culture and the culture of politics.

Six translation rights sold

Jim Lynch's addictive new novel is a tale of two cities, both of them Seattle — the brash 1962 home of the World's Fair, and the chastened 2001 edition, still in shock from the dot-com boom and bust. Read more...

Mr. Lynch does a seamless job of recasting real events to suit his storytelling. Read more...

"Jim Lynch writes of the city where I live with great brio and persuasiveness. The joinery between the two halves of the narrative [1962 and 2001] is seamless. His handling of the light, just-between-friends style of routine civic graft in the 1960s seems dead-on, and his only-slightly alternative history of the city is at least as plausible as the official version. His people live and breathe on the page. I was engrossed though out."

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. Read more...