Founded in 1851 as a four-cabin outpost named "New York Pretty-Soon," Seattle has long struggled with an identity crisis. From a nearly lawless port, to a sedate, conventional company town defined by Boeing Aircraft, to an accessible paradise for artists and recovering urbanites, Seattle repeatedly tried and failed to become bigger, wealthier, more like "major league" cities.
In the late 1980s, Seattle's time suddenly arrived. Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks, McCaw Cellular/AT&T Wireless, and dozens of local dot.com startups began to drive a booming national economy. Seattle became a...
Founded in 1851 as a four-cabin outpost named "New York Pretty-Soon," Seattle has long struggled with an identity crisis. From a nearly lawless por...
"A brave and eye-opening memoir by a writer who has stood on both sides of the wall between the public and the Catholic Church." --Kirkus Reviews "I admire this book as much as any book I've recently read, and I admire it the most of any of Moody's superb books. It's a brilliant investigation of the space between essay and fiction, and in that space is located all the world's woe that attaches to a lapsed Catholic, than whom no one is more Catholic. The book's conception is stunning, the prose is crystalline, and the vertiginous fall through layer after layer of epistemological uncertainty is...
"A brave and eye-opening memoir by a writer who has stood on both sides of the wall between the public and the Catholic Church." --Kirkus Reviews "I a...
