House Inside the Waves
Domesticity, Art, and the Surfing Life
- Publisher
- Dundurn Press
- Initial publish date
- Jul 2002
- Category
- Literary, Sports, Action & Adventure
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781554885510
- Publish Date
- Jul 2002
- List Price
- $9.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780888784285
- Publish Date
- Jul 2002
- List Price
- $22.95
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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.
About the 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.