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Rockaway : surfing headlong into a new life
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Rockaway : surfing headlong into a new life

By Cardwell, Diane, 1964- author.

Genre Autobiographies.

Audience Adults

Published 2020 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston

ISBN 9780358067788

Bib Id 2389656

Description xi, 257 pages : map ; 24 cm

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02964cam a22006018i 4500
LCCN
2019-045702
ISBN
9780358067788 (hardcover) $26.00
0358067782
Call #
B Cardwell
Author
Cardwell, Diane, 1964- author.
Title
Rockaway : surfing headlong into a new life
Publication Information
2020 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston :
Description
xi, 257 pages : map ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-255).
Contents
Prologue: Over the falls -- Part I: At Sea. First light -- Hooked -- Run aground -- In the shaping bay -- Part II: Five feet high and rising. Taking the plunge -- Chasing daylight -- Dropping anchor -- Hustle & flow -- Part III: Under the dome. Unmoored -- Treading water -- In the curl -- Reeled in -- Epilogue: Safe harbor.
Summary
"The inspirational story of one woman learning to surf and creating a new life in gritty, eccentric Rockaway Beach"--
Subject
Cardwell, Diane,--1964
Women surfers--United States--Biography.
African American surfers--Biography.
Surfing--United States--Biography.
Women journalists--United States--Biography.
African American journalists--Biography.
Divorced women--United States--Biography.
Rockaway Beach (New York, N.Y.)--Biography.
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Autobiographies

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