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Crazy for the Storm (Larger Print) (Paperback)

Author: Norman Ollestad

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From the age of three, Norman Ollestad was thrust into the world of surfing and competitive downhill skiing by the charismatic father he both idolized and resented. These exhilarating tests of skill prepared "Boy Wonder," as his father called him, to become a fearless champion8212;and ultimately saved his life.

Flying to a ski championship ceremony in February 1979, the chartered Cessna carrying Norman and his father crashed into the San Gabriel Mountains. "Dad and I were a team, and he was Superman," Ollestad writes. But now Norman's father was dead, and the devastated eleven-year-old had to descend the treacherous, icy mountain alone.

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 him8212;and also taught him to overcome the indomitable. As it illuminates the complicated bond between an extraordinary father and his son, Ollestad's powerful and unforgettable true story offers remarkable insight for us all.

Norman Ollestad's father, an adventurist and FBI agent, was fairly obsessed with channeling his son's course through life. Almost from the time Norman took his first steps, his father was strapping skis to the toddler's tiny feet and hurling him down the side of a mountain. Norman was also forced to learn how to surf by the notorious "sink-or-swim" method. While he soon came to resent his father's stubborn and abusive training techniques, Norman is alive today because of those hard lessons. In 1979, the eleven-year-old Norman was the only survivor of a small plane crash that killed his father and two other people. Stranded on a treacherous mountainside amidst the blizzard that caused the plane to go down, young Norman used his skiing and survival skills to escape certain death. His riveting memoir tells his incredible story of strength and endurance, balancing the chilling winds of his mountain ordeal with the brilliant sunshine of the beaches where he learned to surf.

  • Genre: Biography + Autobiography
  • Subgenre: Personal Memoirs
  • Publisher: Harperluxe
  • Pages: 351
  • Edition: Larger Print
  • Language: English
  • Format: paperback
  • Release Date: June 2, 2009
  • Date Published: June 2, 2009
  • Author: Norman Ollestad

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  • Online Item #: 11321302
  • Store Item Number (DPCI): 248-00-0408
  • ISBN: 9780061782084
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  • Reviewer: Ginger Adams Otis, (New York Post)

    "Ollestad...succeeds in making this book an elegant memoir as well as a transformative coming-of-age tale. When he leaves his father's limp body behind on the icy plateau...it's clear he takes his first perilous steps not just into survival, but into adulthood."
  • Reviewer: Bill Gifford, (Washington Post)

    "[A] breathtaking 'memoir of survival,'....[This] portrait of a father's consuming love for his son...will keep you up late into the night."
  • "[In this] engrossing story of adventure, survival and psychological exploration....Ollestad hits several notes that should make his memoir irresistible to those looking for page-turning but thought-provoking summer reading along the lines of Jon Krakauer's INTO THIN AIR."
  • Reviewer: Maggie Galehouse, (Miami Herald)

    "There's enough drama in the plane crash alone to sustain a novel, but Ollestad has done something much more. He's written a beautiful story about a thrill-loving father...who taught his boy not just how to live but also but how to thrive."

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  • Book Subgenre : Personal Memoirs
  • Item Type - Electronics. : Books
  • Edition : Larger Print
  • Pages : 351
  • Format : paperback
  • Publisher : Harperluxe
  • Language : english
  • Book Genre : Biography + Autobiography
9780061782084
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