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Crazy for the storm : a memoir of survival / Norman Ollestad.
Van Pelt Library CT275.O475 A3 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ollestad, Norman.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ollestad, Norman--Childhood and youth.
- Ollestad, Norman.
- Ollestad, Norman--Family.
- Ollestad, Norman, 1935-1979.
- Aircraft accident victims--California--Biography.
- Aircraft accident victims.
- Aircraft accidents--California--San Bernardino Mountains.
- Aircraft accidents.
- Child surfers--California--Biography.
- Child surfers.
- Downhill ski racing--United States--Biography.
- Downhill ski racing.
- Fathers and sons--United States.
- Fathers and sons.
- Families.
- United States.
- Fathers--Death.
- Fathers.
- Competition (Psychology).
- California.
- California--San Bernardino Mountains.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 272 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : Ecco, [2009]
- Summary:
- 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.
- ISBN:
- 0061766720
- 9780061766725
- OCLC:
- 262884179
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