![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Doctorow and Charles Dickens met on the streets of Seattle, they couldn't have created a better book. Clyde Hunssler, Maddie's albino handyman and furtive love interest James Colter, a muckraking black journalist who owns and publishes the "Seattle Sentry newspaper and Chiridah Simpson, an aspiring stage actress forced into prostitution and morphine addiction while working in the city's corrupt vaudeville theater, all call Madison House home. Maddie Ingram, owner of Madison House, and her quirky and endearing boarders find their lives inextricably linked when the city decides to re-grade Denny hill, and the fate of Madison House hangs in the balance. No novel extant is nearly as thorough in its presentation of the early city, and all future attempts in its historical vein will be made in light of this book."-David Guterson, author of "Snow Falling on Cedars and "Our Lady of the Forest Peter Donahue's debut novel, "Madison House, chronicles turn-of-the-century Seattle's explosive transformation from frontier outpost to major metropolis. "Peter Donahue seems to have a map of old Seattle in his head. ![]()
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