Jim Lynch lives with his wife and their daughter in Olympia, Washington. As a journalist, he has received the Livingston Award for Young Journalists, among other national honors. His first novel, The Highest Tide, won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, appeared on several best seller lists, was adapted for the stage and has been published in eleven foreign markets. For more info on Jim click on bio.
International Acclaim for The Highest Tide:
"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.
The British version of The Highest Tide became a bestseller after it was showcased by the Richard & Judy Show, a televised book club in London.
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BORDER SONGS RELEASED IN PAPERBACK ON JULY 13
Paperback cover for U.S. and Canada
- The Washington Post - The Toronto Star - The St. Louis Post Dispatch - The Oregonian - Amazon.com Go to the Events page for upcoming readings or click on link to right for Wall Street Journal article about Jim's upcoming book tour by sailboat. Border Songs is currently being adapted to the stage by Book-it Theater in Seattle, which adapted and performed my other novel, The Highest Tide, in 2008. Border Songs is slated for the stage in the fall of 2011.
The Norwegian Border Songs
“Wonderful…tender, sad and leavened with wit, Border Songs reads like something written by a more efficient Richard Russo."
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