Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Book Award A new Young Adult version of TIDE was released May 1. Click on the NEWS page above for more details. International Acclaim: "A remarkable first novel ... This is an irresistible coming of age fable, dappled with lyricism, briny honesty and good humor. It's as if Rachel Carson herself (or, say, John McPhee) had turned to fiction, bringing an exacting sense of the ebb and flow of nature to the story of one largely unsupervised boy and the exploration of his surroundings." -- Los Angeles Times "This novel is so very special. If you reach the last page without having laughed out loud, felt tears well up or at least once sat back in wonder at the extraordinary descriptoins of the sea and its creatures, then you may quite simply be inhuman." -- London Independent "Graceful and inventive first novel ... [Lynch's) declarative style and vivid imagery allow the science of the ocean to blend easily with its poetry." -- New York Times Book Review "The kind of novel that book clubs live for, heartwarming, but not unosphisticated." -- Detroit Free Press "The Highest Tide is one of the best novels it has been my pleasure to read for many a day. ... This is a great novel which you will want to re-read." -- London Independent. "In stunning prose, author Jim Lynch puts sea life into a kaleidoscope where swirling shapes burst and reconfigure in continuous life-affirming wonder. ... The balance of elegance, groundedness and style is remarkable." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Poetic, yet lean, restrained, lucid and radiant." -- London Times "A poignant coming-of-age story and an enchanting primer on the life aquatic. The Highest Tide is as crisp and clean as a cool dip into the water, and just about as refreshing." -- Entertainment Weekly "A radiant first novel." -- O, The Oprah Winfrey Magazine "Jim Lynch combines the spirits of two 1960s classics, `To Kill a Mockingbird' and `Silent Spring' in this knock-out debut novel. ... If novels were bioluminescent, the glow from this one would dominate bookstore shelves." -- Eugene Register Guard |
An International Bestseller "The Highest Tide" was released in September 2005 in the United States, and has been published in more than 20 other countries and translated into eight languages. It is now available in paperback in the United States. (For upcoming readings and signings click on Events.)  The cover for the paperback in the United Kingdom, where The Highest Tide was picked as a summer 2006 read by London's Richard and Judy TV Book Club.   Jim Lynch has won national journalism awards and received the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award for his debut novel, The Highest Tide. Jim lives on the west coast of the United States in Olympia, Washington with his wife and daughter. (For more information, click on Bio page. For a Q&A with the author and book group questions, click on News/Q&A.) |
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