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The Highest Tide

A Novel

By Jim Lynch

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| Hardcover | 9781582346052

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A mesmerizing, allegorical, and beautifully wrought first novel about one boy’s fascination with the sea during the summer that will change his life.
 
One moonlit night, thirteen-year-old Miles O’Malley slips out of his house, packs up his kayak and goes exploring on the flContinue

A mesmerizing, allegorical, and beautifully wrought first novel about one boy’s fascination with the sea during the summer that will change his life.
 
One moonlit night, thirteen-year-old Miles O’Malley slips out of his house, packs up his kayak and goes exploring on the flats of Puget Sound. But what begins as an ordinary hunt for starfish, snails, and clams is soon transformed by an astonishing sight: a beached giant squid. As the first person to ever see a giant squid alive, the speed-reading Rachel Carson-obsessed insomniac instantly becomes a local curiosity. When he later finds a rare deepwater fish in the tidal waters by his home, and saves a dog from drowning, he is hailed as a prophet. The media hovers and everyone wants to hear what Miles has to say.
 
But Miles is really just a teenager on the verge of growing up, infatuated with the girl next door, worried that his bickering parents will divorce, and fearful that everything, even the bay he loves, is shifting away from him. While the sea continues to offer up discoveries from its mysterious depths, Miles struggles to deal with the difficulties that attend the equally mysterious process of growing up. In this mesmerizing, beautifully wrought first novel, we witness the dramatic sea change for both Miles and the coastline that he adores over the course of a summer—one that will culminate with the highest tide in fifty years.

Critics

  • The wonderful edge of the sea

    There are some classic novels about a boy growing up — Great Expectations and Kes spring to mind. Well, here is another. The Highest Tide is one of the best novels it has been my pleasure to read for many a day. And its cover is one of the worst it h ... (read full critics)

    spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

  • Ocean's Thirteen

    In Jim Lynch's graceful and inventive first novel, "The Highest Tide," a young marine biology enthusiast and collector named Miles O'Malley - he is described as an "increasingly horny, speed-reading, 13-year-old insomniac" - is delighted to discover ... (read full critics)

    nytimes published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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  • A somewhat disappointing read. This was on my wishlist because it was a Richard and Judy choice. Why? It is a very descriptive book on all manner of sea creatures which is interesting enough. However the story of Miles is buried in all this sea creature information and is just another story of a you ... (continue)

    A somewhat disappointing read. This was on my wishlist because it was a Richard and Judy choice. Why? It is a very descriptive book on all manner of sea creatures which is interesting enough. However the story of Miles is buried in all this sea creature information and is just another story of a young boy coming of age one summer, completly lacking any real substance.

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