Lynch, Jim. The highest tide.LYNCH, Jim. The highest tide. Read by Fisher Stevens. 6 cds. 7 hrs. BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. Audiobooks America. 2005. 0-7927-3753-9. $64.95. Vinyl; plot, author, reader notes. SA Miles O'Malley is an "increasingly horny horn·y adj. 1. Made of horn or a similar substance. 2. Tough and calloused, as of skin. , speed-reading, thirteen-year-old insomniac in·som·ni·ac n. One who suffers from insomnia. adj. Having or causing insomnia. " who becomes a local celebrity when he discovers a 37-foot-long giant squid while kayaking early one morning. Soon TV crews are hounding him, as well as a New Age cult convinced of his divinity. Several worries keep him from getting a swelled head swelled head a disease of rams, a form of malignant edema caused by Clostridium septicum or other Clostridia spp. The swelling and emphysema are present only on the head and neck. The disease is thought to occur as a result of fighting. Called also ovine bighead. . First is Angie Stegner, a judge's daughter who was his babysitter babysitter A person, often an intelligent family member, who stays by the bedside of a Pt requiring mechanical ventilation, and guards for equipment malfunctions or other problems . He adores Angie, who is now an 18-year-old drug-abusing grunge grunge - /gruhnj/ 1. That which is grungy, or that which makes it so. 2. [Cambridge] Code which is inaccessible due to changes in other parts of the program. The preferred term in North America is dead code. band bass player who already has a boyfriend. Then there are his warring parents, who discuss divorce. His friend Phelps is a sex-obsessed teenage air-guitar player whose favorite word is a sexual obscenity. Finally there is Florence, an old lady who fancies herself a psychic and who predicts great things for Miles. Her advancing Parkinson's disease is a worry for Miles, who often finds her bloodied and bruised from falling in the tiny house she inhabits alone. Miles loves the tidal flats of Puget Sound and can quote Rachel Carson from memory. He gets the scientific community, the New Agers, and the media interested in the rich life in the primordial ooze that the retreating tides reveal. Narrator NARRATOR. A pleader who draws narrs serviens narrator, a sergeant at law. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 37. Obsolete. Stevens is familiar from TV, movies and the stage. His reading is by turns professorial as Miles lectures anyone who will listen about crabs and starfish, and passionate as Miles agonizes over his parents, Angie, and Florence's approaching death. The best part of this coming-of-age story is the rich life of the tidal flats. Lynch lives in Olympia, Washington. He has an observant eye and uses his familiarity with Puget Sound to effect. In fact, the Sound is as much a character in the novel as any of the humans. Janet Julian, English Teacher (retired), Grafton, MA S--Recommended for senior high school students. A--Recommended for advanced students and adults. This code will help librarians and teachers working in high schools where there are honors and advanced placement students. This also will help extend KLIATT's usefulness in public libraries. |
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