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 |
1521 Tenth Avenue
Seattle, WA, USA 98122 The Elliott Bay Book Company is Seattle's leading independent bookstore and hosts an incredible reading series. Elliott Bay moved from it's location in Seattle's Pioneer Square (a historic district that is known as the source of the term "Skid Road") in April 2010. On the new location, Elliott Bay Book Company says, |
| 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 |
