Norman Ollestad
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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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.
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Pub. Date
2016.
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Nathan is a young artist traveling across Europe in search of the emotional fire that has been missing from his work. Heâs been deemed by his mentors and critics as technically skillful but uninspired âcriticisms he fears to be true. On a Paris street, he witnesses the volatile breakup of a young French woman and her beau. Nathan pursues a meeting with the woman and it very quickly becomes evident that her provocative charisma and scathing...