Title: Crazy for the storm
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.
Subjects: Downhill ski racing, Family, Aircraft accident victims, Fathers, Fathers and sons, Aircraft accidents, Death, Child surfers, Competition (Psychology), Childhood and youth, Biography, nyt:hardcover-nonfiction=2009-07-05, New York Times bestseller, Surfing, Skis and skiing, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc., California, biography
Places: United States, California, San Bernardino Mountains
People: Norman Ollestad (1935-1979), Norman Ollestad