![]() | Reading Portland: The City in Prose Subjects: Portland(Or.) -- Literary collections; American prose literature -- Oregon -- Portland; Portland(Or.) -- Fiction; Portland(Or.); Reading Portland is a literary exploration of the city's past and present. In over eighty selections, Portland is revealed through histories, memoirs, autobiographies, short stories, novels, and news reports. This single volume gives voice to women and men; the colonizers and the colonized; white, Hispanic, African American, Asian American, and Indian storytellers; and lower, middle, and upper classes. John Trombold teaches at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon. Peter Donahue teaches at Birmingham-Southern College in Alabama and is the author of many short stories and books, including the novel Madison House . Together, they edited Reading Seattle: The City in Prose. |
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