The Washington Post, July 16th, 1990
THE GOOD RAIN Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest By Timothy Egan Knopf. 254 pp. $19.95 Several decades ago, when Boston expatriate Stewart Holbrook wrote "The Far Corner," still considered by natives to be the definitive profile of the region, the Pacific Northwest was remote and bucolic, a romantic and mysterious place of rain and rumor. In the minds of outsiders, Oregon, Washington and Idaho, as well as bits of British Columbia, Montana and (God forbid!) Northern California, were provinces of fish, forests and wheat fields, a mote of beautiful, still mostly wild frontier waitin...
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