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

by Richard Taylor

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781554885510
Publisher:	Dundurn Press
Publication date:	07/16/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Richard Taylor is the author of the novel Cartoon Woods. Many of his feature articles have been published by the Ottawa Citizen. A seasoned traveller, he has taught creative writing in Hong Kong, Australia, and Tuscany. He teaches in Carleton University's English department.
Richard Taylor is the author of the novel Cartoon Woods and the short-story collection tender Only the One.. Many of his feature articles have been published by the Ottawa Citizen. A seasoned traveller, he has journeyed around the world and has taught creative writing in Hong Kong, Australia, and Tuscany. He teaches in Carleton University's English department.

Table of Contents

	Prologue: Reflections of a Crazed Househusband	1
1	Anatomy of Restlessness	7
2	Heaven and Hell	16
3	Melancholy Lawn Mowers	27
4	Confessions of an Unrepentant Beach Bum	39
5	North-Coast Perfection	49
6	Mr. Mom	56
7	God Save the Queen	69
8	Into the Drink with Lord Byron	83
9	General Advice on How to Avoid Shark Attack	91
10	Hanging Ten	107
11	We of the Never Never	119
12	Ironing John	134
13	The Point	145
14	Snake in the Garden	151
15	Good News from the Secret Annex	165
16	Romantic Egoists	182
17	House Inside the Waves	201
18	The Three Amigos	213
19	The Whole South Seas Kitchen	229
20	Aquatic Intermezzo	247
21	Gidget, Big Kahuna, No-Holds-Barred Luau	255
	Epilogue: No Time for Jet Lag	265