Tillamook 1952 - Softcover

George Byron Wright

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0963265539 ISBN 13: 9780963265531

Publisher: C3 Publications, 2006

Synopsis

When the forest explodes . . . On August 24, 1933, Verlin Victory Lundigun, 32, catches a piece of pitch-fired flaming tree trunk with his face. He is one warrior among thousands fighting the fiercest forest fire in U.S. history the infamous Tillamook Burn. Verlin lives that day but is horribly scarred. He shields himself from the world with a black mask that cannot hide his rage. Nine months later he is dead from a gunshot. Verlin s death is accepted as accidental until his sister Iris dies in 1952. It is then that Iris youngest son makes a discovery that compels him to search for how and why his uncle died. Lou Kallander s quest rekindles old suspicions, guilt and his own long-dormant sense of self. When Lou confronts the people he thinks have insights into his uncle s death, they are not willing partners in his quest. His siblings, likewise, are opposed to Lou mucking around in the sour backwaters of the family s past. He also meets a woman who is housesitting the family home. They become attracted to each other but not without complications. TILLAMOOK 1952 is about sibling introspection, the pain of friendship, and a search for absolution.

About this title

About the Author:

George Byron Wright was born in The Dalles, Oregon. Along with his mother and brother, he migrated to three other small Oregon towns as his father pursued the life of a mortician. Living in Baker City, Tillamook and Roseburg endowed him with a lifelong fondness for small places. Following a lengthy career in the not-for-profit sector, during which time he wrote professionally, publishing books on management and board development, George returned to his love of fiction. In 1996 he began work on what has become his Oregon Trio , three novels set in the small towns of his youth. BAKER CITY 1948 was published in 2005, followed by TILLAMOOK 1952 in 2006, and now ROSEBURG 1959, completes this unique body of work. George lives with his wife and first reader, Betsy, in Portland, Oregon.

Review:

[In Tillamook 1952] George Byron Wright], has human emotions entwining and erupting like flames sliding up the trees of the Tillamook Burn, threatening to consume characters of a small coastal town. Anger and guilt and love rise like the heat of the fire, and are just as difficult to control...Wright s skillful use of narrative takes the unrelenting curiosity of a man who has been shielded from a dark secret and carries it like a burning torch to a terrible conclusion. --Bob Olds, Oregon Writers Colony Reviewer

About this edition

• Publisher: C3 Publications
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0963265539
• ISBN 13: 9780963265531
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Number of pages: 280
• Illustrator: Dennis Stoval