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

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Width:  6  Inches
Height:  9  Inches
Pages:  288
Format:  Paperback
Publication Date:  July 16, 2002
Illustrations:  None
Publisher:  Dundurn Press

Description

Writer, surfer, 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 writer‘s first case of the mid-life blues seduced him into recapturing his youthful romance with surfing.

Author

Richard Taylor is the author of the novel Cartoon Woods and the short-story collection Tender Only the One. Many of his feature articles on subjects as diverse as Lord Byron, open-water swimming, surfing, and the perils of being a househusband have been published by the Ottawa Citizen. A seasoned traveller, he has journeyed around the world twice and has taught creative writing in Hong Kong, Australia, and Tuscany. Today he teaches in Carleton University‘s English Department in Ottawa.

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