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Crazy for the Storm by Norman Ollestad (2009, Hardcover) 
Crazy for the Storm by Norman Ollestad (2009, Hardcover)

 
Crazy for the Storm by Norman Ollestad (2009, Hardcover)

Publisher: Ecco Pr
Publication Date: 2009-06-02
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0061766720
ISBN-13: 9780061766725
Product ID: EPID71156927
Description: 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 hur...
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Synopsis
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.

Norman Ollestad's riveting and heartbreaking memoir tell the astonishing true story of his miraculous survival after the airplane his father chartered crashed into the snow-covered peaks of the San Gabriel mountains. Norman was 11 at the time. He had no gear, he was in the middle of a blizzard, and his idolized, adventure-seeking father was dead, but using the survival skills and sense of fearlessness his father had taught him from their itinerant surfing days in California and Mexico, Norman found a way to triumph in the face of disaster and loss.

Details
Publication Date:2009-06-02

Size
Length:272 pages
Height:9.5 in
Width:6.5 in
Thickness:1.2 in
Weight:16.8 oz

Publisher's Note
A personal account set against a backdrop of southern California's surf culture in the late 1970s describes the author's struggles with constant fear in the face of his father's thrill-seeking personality, his forced participation in dangerous ski and surf sports, and his efforts to survive a plane crash that killed his father and stranded him in the Gabriel Mountains. 300,000 first printing.

Industry Reviews
"[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."
(05/15/2009)

"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."
(06/14/2009)

"[A] breathtaking 'memoir of survival,'....[This] portrait of a father's consuming love for his son...will keep you up late into the night."
(06/14/2009)

"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."
(06/28/2009)

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