DAVE BOLING
Thursday, September 4 at 7:30 p.m.

Most known hereabouts as a fine sportswriter for the Tacoma News-Tribune, Dave Boling is about to be more widely known as a debut novelist of note. He is here tonight with a compelling first book, Guernica (Bloomsbury). "Examining the Spanish Civil War and the town that was famously firebombed by the Germans on the eve of WWII, this multigenerational family saga begins with the three abandoned Ansotegui boys, struggling to survive on the family farm at the end of the 19th century ... Boling's portrait of the Guernica tragedy is vivid, as is his illustration of the Basque people's oppression; wisely, he sidesteps elaborate political explanation that could slow the drama. Boling is skillful with characters and dialogue, possessing a great sense of timing and humor ..." - Publishers Weekly. "Boling breathes life into a flash point of history and creates an endearing and tragic drama relevant today. Guernica is an ambitious debut by a writer whose daring imagination and seamless prose transports us to an extraordinary time and place." - Jim Lynch.

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