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Title: The Genie at Low Tide
Author: Paul Byall
Narrator: Allan Robertson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 1 hr
Language: English
Release date: 07-02-14
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Josh Cooper won Rookie of the Year in 1972 and was out of the majors by 1973, his pitching career ended by a sharp line drive up the middle. After moving back to his hometown of Beaufort, South Carolina, he has been pleasantly wasting his life for over three decades when a young woman shows up, claiming to be his daughter from one of many one-night stands.
Now, after years of chasing women, casual drinking, and recreational fishing, Cooper is forced to share his life with a strange young woman who keeps badgering him to eat healthier and clean up after himself, and seems to be harboring secrets of her own. The Genie at Low Tide is a story of the mysterious, magical encounters that force us to re-examine our lives, even when we seem to have come to the end of the line.
Ploughshares, the literary magazine of Emerson College.
Members Reviews:
Spellbinding
Mr. Byallâs yarn draws us seamlessly into Josh Cooperâs world that is at once limitless and claustrophobic. Cooper has been coasting for years on the momentum his meteoric rise to baseball stardom, a trip that ultimately fizzled like a shooting star. In his later years, he is running on fumes, content with his hermetic existence, but life will not leave him alone.
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Byall weaves the setting, Cooperâs isolation, and his irritation at being bothered into a fine tale. Can a âboyâ of 60 have still grow? Perhaps no development is too arrested for salvation. A must read.
Fun / Engaging Story
I found this very well written story both humorous and moving. The central character, Josh Cooper, is an aging former baseball player who has wasted away most of his life in solitude on a small island in SC. The author tells us in the very first sentence "When Josh Cooper met Marybelle Evans he'd been out of the majors for 35 years." This is the hint that she is about to change his life, and does she ever! A very funny and engaging story. I liked it a lot.
Quick read but absolutely delightful
I read this story in one sitting but I interrupted myself several times to read parts I especially liked to my long-suffering husband. I really like the way this author puts words together and some of it just needed to be read aloud. For instance, Marybelle gives Josh a yellow scarf she had knitted herself and "In all his years on this earth he'd never met anyone with a neck long enough to satisfy this scarf." I will be on the lookout for "Ridgeland".
Alluring story
Paul Byall's,"The Genie at Low Tide," is an alluring story about the human need to nurture and be nurtured, and love exempt from explanation. What's striking about Byall's writing is his ability to surprise/wow you with simple descriptions, and the potency of word choice that lends itself to poetry. He effortlessly weaves beautiful language into a story about the possibility of transformation late in life. Highly recommend!
a marvel
I'm a fan of novellas and have been for four decades--counting among my favorites DEATH IN VENICE, THE SNOW GOOSE, THE LONG MARCH and other classics. I couldn't be happier to find THE GENIE AT LOW TIDE. It's on a par with those classics. Byall is a master of characterization, of seduction into an imagined world, and of story that flows from character rather than cognitive imposition. A truly memorable book.
