"By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had……" — Jonathan Raban

By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had taken on the dangerous… - Jonathan Raban
"By the end of the 1980s, Seattle had taken on the dangerous lustre of a promised city. The rumour had gone out that if you had failed in Detroit you might yet succeed in Seattle - and that if you'd succeeded in Seoul, you could succeed even better in Seattle... Seattle was the coming place. So I joined the line of hopefuls."

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