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On a Wave

Inglese · Tascabile

Spedizione di solito entro 3 a 5 settimane

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In this prizewinning poet's wry and exhilarating coming-of-age story, Thad Ziolkowski's On a Wave poignantly looks back at adolescence in a memoir of his surfing years. As a disenchanted, unemployed English professor, Thad decides one day to sneak away from his temp job in Manhattan and catch a wave off a dingy Queens shoreline. In the meager cold waves, he contemplates how he could have possibly become a semidepressed, chain-smoking, aimless man when for a few shining years of his boyhood, he was invincible. His lapsed love affair with the ocean begins amid the late-sixties counterculture in coastal Florida. After his parents' divorce, nine-year-old Thad escapes from his difficult family -- notably a new brooding and explosive stepfather -- by heading for the thrilling, uncharted waters of the local beach. In the embrace of the surf, he is able to stay offshore for years, until his life is upended once again, this time by a double tragedy that deposits him at a crossroads between a life in the waves and a life on land. Lyrical and disarmingly funny, On a Wave is a glorious portrait of youth that reminds readers of Tobias Wolff's This Boy's Life and Frank Conroy's Stop-Time.

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Autori Thad Ziolkowski
Editore Ingram Publishers Services
 
Lingue Inglese
Contenuto Libro
Forma del prodotto Tascabile
Data pubblicazione 06.05.2003
Categoria Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari
Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata
 
EAN 9780802140012
ISBN 978-0-8021-4001-2
Numero di pagine 272
Dimensioni (della confezione) 13.9 x 21 x 1.9 cm
Peso (della confezione) 313 g
 
Categorie Florida, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, SPORTS & RECREATION / Water Sports, Water sports & recreations, c 1960 to c 1969, TOPICAL / Coming of Age, Coming of age celebrations / festivals / rituals
 

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