Feb 10, 2010
Seattle, WA – 02/10/10 – Elliott Bay Book Company – Jedediah Berry
By: readinglocalseattle Categories: Events
| Who | Jedediah Berry |
| When |
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
7:00pm
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All Ages
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| Where |
101 South Main Street
Seattle, WA, USA 98104 Located in the heart of the historic Pioneer Square District, Seattle's original business neighborhood, The Elliott Bay Book Company is home to over 150,000 titles, set on cedar shelves in a series of inviting, exposed-brick walled rooms. |
| Other Info | A writer who, like Kevin Sampsell earlier in the month, works in small press publishing (here, Small Beer Press), Jedediah Berry visits with the paperback of last year's well-received debut, the literary mystery The Manual of Detection (Penguin). "An unlikely sleuth anchors an unlikely investigation in Berry's fantastical melding of Kafka, Hitchcock, and The Man Who Was Thursday. For 20 years Charles Unwin has toiled as a clerk to Detective Travis T. Sivart. Now he's been plucked from his assignment shadowing a mysterious young woman in a plaid skirt and catapulted to the rank of detective himself ... Berry's debut is a coldly inventive deconstruction of Cartesian metaphysics, the criminal-justice system, and the well-oiled detective story." – Kirkus Reviews. "Berry's ... smooth and sympathetic narration make the bizarre twists perfectly logical and sensible. He also provides homage to the hard-boiled staples ... The strength of the story and the talent of the writer mesh beautifully." – Publishers Weekly |
