Jim Lynch, Author . Bloomsbury $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-58234-605-2
The fertile strangeness of marine tidal life becomes a subtly executed metaphor for the bewilderments of adolescence in this tender and authentic coming-of-age novel, Lynch's first. As a precocious, undersized 13-year-old living on the shore of...
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Jim Lynch, Author . Knopf $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-307-35736-6
Lynch digs into the strange culture of a U.S.-Canada border town in his lush second novel (after The Highest Tide
). Brandon Vanderkool, the town freak people talk about “the way they discuss earthquakes, eclipses and other phenomena,†is pushed
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Jim Lynch. Knopf, $25.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-307-95868-6
Lynch (Border Songs) offers a new entry into the prominent "city portrait" novels with his newest, which aims to do for Seattle what Jonathan Franzen's The Twenty-Seventh City did for St. Louis or Erik Larson's nonfiction The Devil in the White City
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Jim Lynch. Knopf, $26.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-307-95898-3
Josh Johannssen, the protagonist of this enjoyable, low-key novel, has sailing in his blood. His grandfather and father are both designers and builders of sailboats. His younger sister, Ruby, scotched a promising career in sailing and now does aid...
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