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A Surfing Life
St. Martin's Press
July 2013
On Sale: July 2, 2013
304 pages
ISBN: 1250031591
EAN: 9781250031594
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Non-Fiction Memoir
A bitchin' love letter to sand and sea, and a spirited
inside account of life with the "first family" of American
surfing In 1956, Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz stepped away from a
successful medical practice and began a lifelong surfing
odyssey that grew to include his wife Juliette, and their
nine children. Together, the Paskowitz clan lived a
vagabonding bohemian existence, eschewing material
possessions in favor of intangible riches like health and
good cheer . . . all the while careening along the world's
coastlines in search of the perfect wave. In Scratching the Horizon, Izzy Paskowitz looks back
at his unusual upbringing, and his lifelong passion for the
sport that carries his family's stamp. As the fourth-oldest
child in a family of inveterate surfers, rock stars, and
beach bums, he is uniquely qualified to shine a light on a
childhood that has come to symbolize the surfing credo, a
reckless young adulthood that nearly cost him his sanity,
and a maturing sense of self and purpose that allows him to
lift others on the back of his experience. As the father of a son with autism and the founder of
"Surfers Healing," a foundation devoted to expanding the
horizons of children with autism through surfing, Paskowitz
has found a way to connect the surreal aspects of his
childhood to the harsh realities of adulthood, and he shares
these discoveries in this wickedly entertaining and
transforming memoir.
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