JULIE ORRINGER - Cancelled |
05/20/2010 8:00 pm
With Julie Orringer, this evening marks a return to Elliott Bay seven years after reading here for her much-praised book of stories, How to Breathe Underwater. She is here with a novel, The Invisible Bridge (Knopf), that is, leaps and bounds, one of the best of the year. "Orringer's stunning first novel far exceeds the expectations generated by her much-lauded debut collection ... In this WWII saga, Orringer illuminates the life of Andras Lévi, a Hungarian Jew of meager means whose world is upended by a scholarship to the École Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris ... Against the backdrop of grueling school assignments, exhausting work at a theater, budding romance, and the developing kinship between Andras and his fellow Jewish students, Orringer ingeniously depicts the insidious reach of the growing tide of anti-Semitism that eventually lands him back in Hungary ... Orringer's triumphant novel is as much a lucid reminder of a time not so far away as it is a luminous story about the redemptive power of love." - Publishers Weekly.
Location:
- Street:
- The Elliott Bay Book Company
- Additional:
- 1521 Tenth Avenue
- City:
- Seattle ,
- Province:
- Washington
- Postal Code:
- 98122
- Country:
- United States
