Before the Wind
Release on 2016-04-19 | by Jim Lynch

A novel Jim Lynch. across. ... There were even two winds to keep track of, the true and the apparent. ... better yet, before the wind, which struck me as a phrase from the Creation Story or the first three words of an ominous fable.

Before the Wind
  • Author: Jim Lynch
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • ISBN: 9780307958990
  • Category: Fiction
  • Page: 304
  • View: 832

Following The Highest Tide, Border Songs, and Truth Like the Sun, Jim Lynch now gives us a grand and idiosyncratic family saga that will stand alongside Ken Kesey’s Sometimes a Great Notion. Joshua Johannssen has spent all of his life surrounded by sailboats. His grandfather designed them, his father built and raced them, his Einstein-obsessed mother knows why and how they work (or not). For Josh and his two siblings, their backyard was the Puget Sound and sailing their DNA. But both his sister and brother fled many years ago: Ruby to Africa and elsewhere to do good works on land, and Bernard to god-knows-where at sea, a fugitive and pirate. Suddenly thirty-one, Josh—who repairs boats of all kinds in a Steinbeckian marina south of Seattle—is pained and confused by whatever the hell went wrong with his volatile family. His parents are barely speaking, his mystified grandfather is drinking harder, and he himself—despite an endless and comic flurry of online dates—hasn’t even come close to finding a girlfriend. But when the Johannssens unexpectedly reunite for the most important race in these waters—all of them together on a classic vessel they made decades ago—they will be carried to destinies both individual and collective, and to a heart-shattering revelation. Past and present merge seamlessly and collide surprisingly as Jim Lynch reveals a family unlike any other, with the grace and humor and magic of a master storyteller.

More Books:

Dust Before the Wind. A Novel
Language: en
Pages:

Dust Before the Wind. A Novel

Authors: Maria Henrietta de la Cherois Crommelin
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 1894 - Publisher:

Books about Dust Before the Wind. A Novel
Literary News
Language: en
Pages:

Literary News

Authors: Maria Henrietta de la Cherois Crommelin
Categories: American literature
Type: BOOK - Published: 1894 - Publisher:

Books about Literary News
The Boy Pirate; Or, Life on the Ocean. A Novel. Illustrated with Numerous Engravings
Language: en
Pages: 732

The Boy Pirate; Or, Life on the Ocean. A Novel. Illustrated with Numerous Engravings

Authors: Irving Lyons
Categories: American literature
Type: BOOK - Published: 1865 - Publisher:

Books about The Boy Pirate; Or, Life on the Ocean. A Novel. Illustrated with Numerous Engravings
Cormyr A Novel
Language: en
Pages: 496

Cormyr A Novel

Authors: Ed Greenwood, Jeff Grubb
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-01-17 - Publisher: Wizards of the Coast

The Epic Historical Saga of the Most Powerful Nation in the Realms Cormyr has been ruled by the Obarskyr family since its inception one and a half millennia ago. Now its king, Azoun IV, lies on his deathbed, and the vultures are circling, hoping to usurp the throne for their
Murder in the Wind
Language: en
Pages: 192

Murder in the Wind

Authors: John D. MacDonald
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-11 - Publisher: Random House

Murder in the Wind, one of many classic novels from crime writer John D. MacDonald, the beloved author of Cape Fear and the Travis McGee series, is now available as an eBook. With the waters rising and the winds whipping through the sky, a hurricane of terrifying intensity is looming