THOMAS MULLEN

02/17/2010 12:30 pm
Special midday at Elliott Bay reading. Joining us for this welcome Elliott Bay return for this special, lunch hour reading and signing is novelist Thomas Mullen. His Northwest-set debut novel, The Last Town on Earth, received several best 'first book' citations, and has continued to go into new readers' hands here as a strong word-of-mouth favorite. He returns with an awaited new novel, The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers (Random House). "At the start of Mullen's compelling second novel, set during the heyday of J. Edgar Hoover's war on crime in the 1930s, violent bank robbers Jason and Whit Fireson (aka the Firefly Brothers) wake up in an Indiana morgue, having miraculously survived bullet wounds that led the authorities to triumphantly announce their deaths. The pair escape ... This is but the first of a number of fantastic episodes in which the criminals cheat death ... Mullen makes the despair of the Great Depression palpable, as his antiheroes become folk icons to the downtrodden people of the Midwest resentful of a government that can't help them." – Publishers Weekly. Please check with the Elliott Bay Café at (206) 682-6664, www.elliottbaycafe.com by Tuesday, February 16 for special box-lunch options available as part of this program.
$26.00
ISBN-13: 9781400067534
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Random House, 1/2010

Location: 
Street:
The Elliott Bay Book Company
Additional:
101 S. Main St.
City:
Seattle
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Province:
Washington
Postal Code:
98104
Country:
United States