Crazy for the storm
Subtitle: a memoir of survival
By: Norman Ollestad
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Ecco
Published: 2009
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780061766725
Subjects: Downhill ski racing; Family; Aircraft accident victims; Fathers; Fathers and sons; Aircraft accidents; Death; Child surfers; Competition (Psychology); Childhood and youth; Biography
Description: Set amid the spontaneous, uninhibited surf culture of Malibu and Mexico in the late 1970s, this riveting memoir, written in crisp Hemingwayesque prose, recalls Ollestad's childhood and the magnetic man whose determination and love infuriated and inspired him--and ultimately saved his life.