The surf guru
Subtitle: stories
By: Doug Dorst.
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9781594487613
Description: A collections of twelve short works features tales about an aging surfing champion who meditates on the sport's new generation, an acerbic botanist who draws uproarious biographical sketches, and two drifters who share misadventures from their dilapidated car.
Table of contents: title: The surf guru; title: Dinaburg's cake; title: La fiesta de san humberto el menor; title: Vikings; title: Jumping jacks; title: Portraits of Dr. Gachet; title: The monkeys howl, the hagfish feast; title: Splitters; title: The candidate in bloom; title: Astronauts; title: What is mine will know my face; title: Little reptiles.