Madison House (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780976631101)

E.L. Doctorow meets Charles Dickens in Peter Donahue's debut novel, where an unforgettable cast of characters struggles for their city and their home amid Seattle's explosive transformation from frontier outpost to major metropolis

Peter Donahue"s debut novel Madison House chronicles turn-of-the-century Seattle's explosive transformation from frontier outpost to major metropolis. 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. 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. Had E.L. Doctorow and Charles Dickens met on the streets of Seattle, they couldn't have created a better book.

Author: Peter Donahue
ISBN-10: 0976631105
ISBN-13: 9780976631101
Publisher: Hawthorne Books
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2005
Pages: 524
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.53lbs
Size: 9.06h x 5.56w x 1.12d
Award: Langum Prize for Historical Literature - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 12/15/2005 pg. 22