{"product_id":"reading-portland-the-city-in-prose-paperback","title":"Reading Portland: The City in Prose - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Trombold\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003ePeter Donahue\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eReading Portland\u003c\/i\u003e is a literary exploration of the city's past and present. In over eighty selections, Portland is revealed through histories, memoirs, autobiographies, short stories, novels, and news reports. This single volume gives voice to women and men; the colonizers and the colonized; white, Hispanic, African American, Asian American, and Indian storytellers; and lower, middle, and upper classes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn his introduction, John Trombold considers the history of writing about a place that has nourished a provocative and errant literary tradition for over 150 years. In the preface, Peter Donahue considers the influence of region--particularly Portland's urbanity and its hybrid population--on literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncluded here are the voices of Carl Abbott, Kathryn Hall Bogle, Beverly Cleary, Robin Cody, Lawson Fusao Inada, Rudyard Kipling, Ursula K. Le Guin, Joaquin Miller, Sandy Polishuk, Gary Snyder, Kim Stafford, Elizabeth Woody, and many more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRanging from stories told long before Euroamericans arrived in the Pacific Northwest to those published in the twenty-first century, \u003ci\u003eReading Portland\u003c\/i\u003e is a literary exploration of the city's past and present. In almost one hundred selections, Portland is revealed through histories, memoirs, autobiographies, short stories, novels, and news reports. Authors include Harvey Scott, Abigail Duniway, Stewart Holbrook, Beverly Cleary, Ursula LeGuin, Elizabeth Woody, and many more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eJohn Trombold \u003c\/b\u003eteaches at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon. \u003cb\u003ePeter Donahue \u003c\/b\u003eteaches at Birmingham-Southern College in Alabama and is the author of many short stories and books, including the novel \u003ci\u003eMadison House\u003c\/i\u003e. Together, they edited \u003ci\u003eReading Seattle: The City in Prose.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 608\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.44 x 9 x 6.08 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48329961570553,"sku":"9780295986777","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/4Wrf4HANQe9780295986777.webp?v=1777366371","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/reading-portland-the-city-in-prose-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}