House Inside the Waves Domesticity, Art, and the Surfing Life

Name: House Inside the Waves Domesticity, Art, and the Surfing Life
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ISBN: 9780888784285

ISBN-10: 0888784287

ISBN-13: 9780888784285

Edition: 2002

Authors: Richard Taylor

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Writer and househusband Richard Taylor is mad about beaches and islands, and was inspired by a house exchange that whisked him and his family from a freezing Ottawa winter to a year of some of the world's best surf on the east coast of Australia. In an era of packaged paradises and cyber surfers, the forty-something author's first case of the mid-life blues seduced him into recapturing his youthful romance with surfing.Eventually he found himself adrift among women and children as he documented a Shangri-la lost dominated by a rogues' gallery of hopeless romantic-Lord Byron, Paul Gauguin, Bruce Chatwin, Robert Louis Stevenson and, perhaps the planet's first literary househusband, Henry…

Book details

Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Publication date: 7/16/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Prologue: Reflections of a Crazed Househusband


Anatomy of Restlessness


Heaven and Hell


Melancholy Lawn Mowers


Confessions of an Unrepentant Beach Bum


North-Coast Perfection


Mr. Mom


God Save the Queen


Into the Drink with Lord Byron


General Advice on How to Avoid Shark Attack


Hanging Ten


We of the Never Never


Ironing John


The Point


Snake in the Garden


Good News from the Secret Annex


Romantic Egoists


House Inside the Waves


The Three Amigos


The Whole South Seas Kitchen


Aquatic Intermezzo


Gidget, Big Kahuna, No-Holds-Barred Luau


Epilogue: No Time for Jet Lag