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Kook: What Surfing Taught Me About Love, Life, and Catching the Perfect Wave
Peter Heller
Peter Heller — who wrote Hell or High Water — learns to surf in his forties. The humility of being a beginner, the ocean's indifference to your credentials, and the joy of catching a wave badly. Warm and self-deprecating.
surfing
Memoir
California
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Publisher
Free Press
Published
2010
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