Research Catalog

Title

Rockaway : surfing headlong into a new life / Diane Cardwell.

Author

Cardwell, Diane, 1964-

Publication

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020.

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Details

Description

xi, 257 pages : map; 24 cm

Summary

"The inspirational story of one woman learning to surf and creating a new life in gritty, eccentric Rockaway Beach"--

Subjects

• Divorced women
• Women journalists
• Surfing
• Women surfers
• Black author
• Biographies
• Autobiographies
• United States
• New York (State) > New York > Rockaway Beach
• Rockaway Beach (New York, N.Y.) > Biography
• Divorced women > United States > Biography
• African American journalists > Biography
• Women journalists > United States > Biography
• Surfing > United States > Biography
• African American surfers > Biography
• Women surfers > United States > Biography
• Cardwell, Diane, 1964-

Genre/Form

• Autobiographies.
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• 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.

Call Number

Sc E 21-915

ISBN

• 9780358067788
• 0358067782

LCCN

2019045702

OCLC

1105153712

Author

Cardwell, Diane, 1964- author.

Title

Rockaway : surfing headlong into a new life / Diane Cardwell.

Publisher

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-255).

Local Note

Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

NARRATIVE OF ONE WOMAN'S INNER SALVATION SOUGHT THROUGH LEARNING TO SURF IN NEW YORK CITY.

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc E 21-915